Baltimore civil rights activist Dr. John E. T. Camper, Camper was a Black physician who devoted his life to racial justice in Baltimore. He organized a group of physicians into the African American MeDeSo, (Medical-Dental Society) which provided the funding for many civil rights suits, including Brown v. Board of Education. Moreover, along with Juanita Jackson Mitchell, he organized a 1942 March on Annapolis by 2,000 protesters demanding civil rights in Maryland. Dr. Camper was also a founder of the Baltimore NAACP. He was chair of the Baltimore Committee on Non-Segregation, which picketed the whites-only Ford’s Theater in that city for six years until the playhouse desegregated in 1952.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:34:45 +0000
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