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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.…

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.

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

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.

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