For a modest neighborhood house of flickers, Baltimore's Northwood Theatre demanded an awfully high price for a ticketat least for Negroes. In fact, it cost years of effort and countless hours in jail by picketing students before the first Negro was, last week, admitted to the Northwood.
The most important thing about the Northwood was that it is close by the campus of Morgan State College, predominantly Negro. Morgan State's students understandably wanted to go to the show; the Northwood would not let them in. In 1955, Morgan State students began picketing the theater in a protest that has continued...
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