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Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson (1889-1975) was President of the Baltimore Branch NAACP from 1935 to 1970.

Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin (1900-1974) was the 38th and 42nd mayor of Baltimore (in office 1943-1947; 1963-1967) and the 53rd governor of Maryland (in office 1951-1959).

Juanita Jackson Mitchell (1913-1992) founded the City-Wide Young People’s Forum and the NAACP Youth Movement in Baltimore. She was the first black woman to practice law in Maryland. She was also wife to Clarence Mitchell Jr. and daughter of Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson and Keiffer Jackson.

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