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Top-level descriptions All descriptions. His visionary leadership of St. James is matched by his legacy as a co-founder of the Afro-American newspaper, a historian and a political advocate.

Ordained as a deacon in Virginia in , Bragg entered the priesthood in and arrived in Baltimore in with a passion for fostering independent leadership within the black church. He joined the year old St. When middle-class African-Americans in his congregation continued to move even farther west, Bragg moved St. James again to Lafayette Square in where they celebrated their first service on Easter morning.

These early leaders included Mrs. Violet Hill Whyte in local policing and juvenile justice, Parren and Clarence Mitchell in civil rights and politics, and Dr. Eugenie Phillips in community health. Whyte had deep roots in the community as the daughter of Rev. Daniel G. Together with her husband George, a Baltimore school principal, Whyte lived at N. Carrollton Avenue. Whyte refused to carry a gun and was passionate about her work for the protection of children and her concern for juvenile offenders.

Born and raised on Carrollton Street in Harlem Park, Clarence and Parren Mitchell took on the challenge of fighting for civil rights well beyond their own community.

Elected as the first black member of Congress from any Southern state since Reconstruction, Parren helped to found the Congressional Black Caucus. For nearly 50 years, Dr. Eugenie Phillips worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist for families in Harlem Park and across West Baltimore.

A New York native, Dr. Phillips moved to Baltimore in the s where she married Dr. Townsend Woodward Anderson in They turned their handsome three-story Edmondson Avenue rowhouse into a home for their private practice and worked at Provident Hospital.

Her neighbors made sure no one except Dr. Phillips or her husband parked a car in front of their house so that they could always find a spot after returning home from caring for local mothers and children. The rise of the automobile made more dramatic changes as city streets in the area converted from two-way to one-way and the city demolished scores of homes south of Franklin Street for the development of the East-West Expressway.

The inner block parks and the Harlem Park Elementary Middle School are both legacies from this period of change. West Baltimore residents responded by organizing the Relocation Action Movement, and joined with anti-highway activists from East Baltimore to form the Movement Against Destruction. In the late s, despite growing opposition, the city demolished over a dozen blocks of homes and businesses between downtown to the present day site of the West Baltimore MARC Station.