On February 9, 1966, the 'Maryland Freedom Workers' were established when 20 Black women working as nurse aides, housekeepers, and kitchen staff workers walked off their jobs. The group was working at the Lincoln Nursing Home in Baltimore, Maryland, when they contacted field secretaries of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and told them that […]

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