In 1931 she founded the Citywide Young People’s Forum and the NAACP Youth Movement in 1935. She also led the “Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work” protest against employers who did not hire Black workers. In 1987, she and her mother were inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. AUDREY CYRUS McCALLUM (1938- ) became the first African American to enter Peabody Preparatory. She graduat- ed with Dunbar High School (1956) and earned degrees from Peabody-Bachelor of Music degree in 1960 and a Master’s in Music Education (1967). She taught music in Baltimore City Public Schools including City College, Dunbar and taught at Western High School for 22 years. Nathan Carter recruited her to join the faculty at Morgan State University and the Nathan Cater School of Music at New Shiloh Baptist Church. She is a piano soloist, choral accompanist and church musician. Audrey is a member of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Nathan Carter Foundation, Top Ladies of Distinction, Morgan Women, Peabody Alumni Steering Committee and the Johns Hopkins Alumni Council.
ROBERT LEE CLAY, SR. (1945-2005) Clay was a very successful contractor. Clay worked on several federal, state and city multi-million dollar construction jobs including the Baltimore Metro Subway, VA Hospital, Social Security Administration and others. Known as an outspoken advo- cate for Black business procurements, Clay was often in the
front of protest and opposition to the status quo.
SAMUEL HAROLD LACY (1903 –2003) was a sports- writer, reporter, columnist, editor, and television/radio commentator who worked in the sports journalism field for parts of nine decades. Credited as a persuasive figure in the movement to racially integrate sports, Lacy in 1948 became one of the first Black members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA). In 1997, he received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing from the BBWAA, which placed him in the writers’ and broadcasters’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998. Lacy was with the Baltimore Afro-American for nearly 60 years, and became widely known for his regular “A to Z” columns and his continued championing of racial equity. In 1999, Lacy teamed with colleague Moses J. Newson to write his autobiography, Fighting for Fair- ness: The Life Story of Hall of Fame Sportswriter Sam Lacy. Sam wrote his final column for the paper just days before his death at age 99 in 2003, and filed the piece from his hospital bed.
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