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In June of 1963, Conservatory Director Charles Kent received this letter from the Maryland Commission on Interracial Problems and Relations. It congratulated him on a recent decision to remove racial indicators from Peabody applications.

These minutes from the New England Conservatory, in the penultimate paragraph, describe a letter from President Kennedy that was also received by Peabody. While the original letter could not be found at Peabody, the resulting correspondence is…

Photograph of the grand opening of the Peabody Institute in 1866.

Correspondence between Conservatory Director Charles Kent and Preparatory Dean Leah Thorpe concerning hiring an African-American Preparatory faculty member.

This is the opening speech for the first Summer Youth Project, a Peabody program geared towards underserved Baltimore music students.

This is an interview involving Peabody and non-Peabody affiliates, in which the purpose and other details of the Summer Youth Program are discussed.

Students in the Summer Youth Project participate in a choir rehearsal in North Hall (now Leith Symington Griswold Hall).

Five students in the Summer Youth Project pose in front of the Peabody Institute sign at the corner of Washington Place and Monument Street.

Four students in the Summer Youth Project pose on columns at Peabody’s front entrance, just outside the George Peabody Library.