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Criticism cards from students’ performances in the 1925 pedagogy class for African-American music teachers.

Roster including a list of students, teachers, and other details for the 1925-1926 "Colored Teachers' Class."

Criticism cards from students’ performances in the 1926 pedagogy class for African-American music teachers.

Request from the Peabody Preparatory to use the auditorium at Baltimore City School No. 112 for a pedagogy class for African-American music teachers.

These letters between Maurice Diggs, an African-American music teacher, and Peabody Preparatory representative Mary Evans address the decision to offer the 1925-26 music class for African-American music teachers for no fee.

In this letter, Rowland Posey, Director of the Peabody Summer School, suggests to Institute President William Marbury that African-American students be admitted to the Summer School.

In this letter, Conservatory Dean Virginia Carty asks Institute President William Marbury what to do if African-American students apply to the Peabody Summer School.

Although the Conservatory had accepted Paul Brent as the first African-American student to officially enroll at Peabody in 1949, the Preparatory still did not accept black students. In 1951, when they were considering neighborhoods for new branches,…

The same week that Brown v. Board of Education was decided, Kenneth Hjelmervik, Director of Music Education in the Baltimore Public Schools, wrote to Virginia Carty asking for help accommodating several African-American students in need of a teacher.…