Thurgood Marshall center to mark Baltimore history, serve as launchpad for future

While growing up in Upton in West Baltimore in the 1950s, the Rev. Alvin Hathaway says, barely a day went by when he didn’t interact with some of the teachers, doctors, lawyers and political figures who lived nearby and whose success made it the envy of the city’s Black population. It pained him over the years to see poverty and social decay swamp the neighborhood. He wanted people to recall what had made it special and decided to do something about it someday. (Photo: Kevin Richardson/Baltimore Sun)