Musicians' Union 453 (2015)

ID: 1272 ~ Source: Baltimore Heritage ~ Creator: Eli Pousson ~ Date: November 17, 2015
This file appears in: Baltimore Musicians' Union 543
Musicians' Union 453 (2015)
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Exterior view of the building facing west.

This file appears in: Baltimore Musicians' Union 543

By Eli Pousson
The Baltimore Black Musicians Union opened a meeting hall and boarding house at 620-622 Dolphin Street around the 1940s. Due to the discrimination of Baltimore's downtown hotels at that time, traveling black musicians would stay overnight in the…