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"A Message of Inclusion, A History of Exclusion: Racial Injustice at the Peabody Institute" is a paper examining Peabody's exclusion of African-American students. With a focus on the years 1924-1968, the paper also reflects on more recent efforts to…

Photograph of the main corridor of Leakin Hall, home of the Peabody Preparatory division.

Conductor, cellist, music critic, and music educator W. Llewellyn Wilson (center) conducted the Baltimore City Colored Orchestra and Chorus and was a leader in Baltimore’s classical music community in the early 20th century.

This statement on student dissent was recorded in the Board of Trustees Minutes on June 13, 1968. The statement came after a time of unrest in Baltimore following the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Several students in the Summer Youth Project pose on Peabody’s spiral staircase the day of a rehearsal with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Students in the Summer Youth Project participate in a wind ensemble rehearsal.

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

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

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

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