MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM CORPORATION - Key Persons

Alma Roberts

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Artist / Community Activist / Retired, Former, Senior Program Manager, Community Health of Greater Baltimore Kaiser Permanente - Mid - Atlantic States

Arthur Brown

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Museum Staff Member
Office Administrator

Beverly A. Cooper

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Member of the Board
Vice President, the Reginald F. Lewis Foundation

Bobby Claytor

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Member of the Board
Professor, University of Maryland College Park

Camille Cipollone

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Collections Manager
Museum Staff Member
Registrar

Carla Gaskins - CFO

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Director of Finance
Museum Staff Member

Carole Johnson

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Executive Assistant
Museum Staff Member

Charles P. "Chuck" Martin

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AVP, Regional Community Reinvestment Officer / Officer, M & T Bank

Dale Glenwood Green

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Member of the Board
Vice Chair, Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture / Assistant Professor of Architecture, Morgan State University

Dennis Bell

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Facilities Manager
Museum Staff Member

Donald G. Metzger

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Managing Director / Private Wealth Advisor / Morgan Stanley

Dr. Constance A. Harris

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Member of the Board
Director Online Learning, University of Baltimore

Drew Hawkins

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Member of the Officers Team
Chairman / President, EdYouCore Sports & Entertainment

Francesca Dorsey

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Digital Media and Design Specialist

Ida Rebecca Cummings was actively involved in clubs and other public programs in Baltimore. From 1910 through 1916 Ida R. Cummings was the Correspondence Secretary for the National Association of Colored Women's Club (NACWC). In doing her work for the NACWC she traveled out of state for their annual meetings and wrote over 700 letters! Starting in 1916 she became the Vice President of the NACWC. In her time working for the NACWC Miss Ida would have met Mrs. Margaret Murray Washington, Miss Hallie Quinn Brown, Mrs. Mary Burnett Talbert, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and many other prominent black women working for a better future. Ida Rebecca Cummings was born on March 17, 1867 in Baltimore City. Between 1871 and 1898 Ida R. Cummings' family moved from 45 Tyson Street to 295 Eutaw Street to 424 W. Biddle Street before the family settled into a row house at 1234 Druid Hill Ave where Ida lived until her death in 1958. The same house later known as the "Freedom House", was torn down in 2015. In its later life the "Freedom House" was the office for the local NAACP organization. At the time Ida R. Cummings was living at 1234 Druid Hill Ave, the house was always full of family. In 1900 Ida lived with her parents Henry and Eliza Cummings and five of her siblings Aaron, Blanche, Harry, Estelle, and William as well as her Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Charles Davage, who are noted as living with the family from the 1880s through the end of their lives. The rest of this post delves deeply into the life of Ida R. Cummings gleaned from newspapers, state records, and city directories. It is important to picture her life at home, away from these public sources, as surrounded by family. Later in life, she'll live in the same house with different family members - nieces, nephews and sisters-in-law - but the house is always full. Ida R. Cummings was known as Miss Ida by her students. She was the first black kindergarten teacher in the Baltimore City school system, and possibly the first black kindergarten teacher appointed in Maryland. She graduated from the Baltimore Kindergarten Training School Association, and also studied at the Chicago Kindergarten College before graduating from the 1922 class at Morgan College. Miss Ida started teaching as early as 1897, as noted in the R.L. Polk and Co.'s Baltimore City Directory, but this directory does not list Miss Ida's school. From the First Colored Professional, Clerical and Business Directory of Baltimore City from 1914 through 1932 it is possible to trace the schools where Miss Ida worked. She spent the most time (1914 through 1927) working at School No. 112 at Calhoun and Lauren St. In 1920 she seems to have worked at both School No. 112 and School No. 113 - the Robert Brown Elliott School. At the end of her career, starting in 1928 through at least 1932, Miss Ida worked at No. 122 Samuel Coleridge Taylor School. Miss Ida retired from teaching in 1937.

Imani Haynes

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Museum Staff Member
Curator

Izetta Autumn Mobley

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Museum Staff Member
Director of Interpretation, Collections & Education

Jamal Jefferson

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Museum Staff Member
Visitors Services & Volunteer Manager

Jose Alvarado

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Museum Staff Member
Exhibit Designer / Preparator

Joy Hall

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Communications & Community Engagement Specialist

Juliana Toyloy-Stanton

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Development Manager
Museum Staff Member

Kimberly R. Citizen

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Member of the Board
Co - Founder & CEO, Applied Development, LLC

Leonard Attman

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Member of the Board

Leslie King Hammond

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Member of the Board

Linwood Jackson

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Museum Staff Member
Facilities Technician

Lopez D. Matthews

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State Archivist and Public Records Administrator

Mark Garrison

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Development Specialist
Museum Staff Member

Martin B. King

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Member of the Officers Team
Treasurer / Attorney, Gorman & Williams

Maurice C. Taylor

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Vice President for Academic Outreach and Engagement / Morgan State University

Nathaniel Alston

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Member of the Board
President & CEO, the Horizons Group, LLC

Rachel D. Graham

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Director of External Relations

Reginald F. Lewis

Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 - January 19, 1993) was an American businessman. He was one of the richest African-American men in the 1980s, and the first African American to build a billion-dollar company, Beatrice Foods.