This city was home to one of the first Civil Rights sit-ins at its Read's Drug Store.
This city was home to one of the first Civil Rights sit-ins at its Read's Drug Store. Isaac Myers founded a shipping company as part of this city's Fells Point shipping district, which was known for its employment of free blacks before the Civil War. A pro-Confederate mob attacked a contingent of Union militia in its (*) Pratt Street Riot. This city's 1904 great fire started at a building owned by John Hurst and led to the destruction of newspaper offices under the direction of H. L. Mencken, who was known as this city's sage. One enslaved man who worked there was Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery on a boat that embarked from here. It was founded around Locust Point by Cecil Calvert, and Francis Scott Key was imprisoned in Fort McHenry, near this city. For 10 points, name this city plagued by recent high crime rates, the most populous in Maryland.
This city was home to one of the first Civil Rights sit-ins at its Read's Drug Store.
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