Dr. Helena Hicks

ID: 1756 ~ Source: Baltimore Heritage ~ Creator: Eli Pousson ~ Date: 2011 February 12
This file appears in: Read's Drug Store
Dr. Helena Hicks
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As a student at Morgan State University, Dr. Helena Hicks participated in a sit-in protest at Read's Drug Store that led to the desegregation of the chain.

This file appears in: Read's Drug Store

By Eli Pousson
Though the Baltimore Sun heralded the structure at the southeast corner of Howard and Lexington as an Art Deco design icon from the time of its construction in 1934, this building's role as an early and vital witness to a historic, but long…