Betty Garman Robinson Papers

Betty Garman Robinson Papers

East Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.) -- History -- 21st century.

City planning

City planning--Maryland--Baltimore

Community activists

Community organization

Community organization--Maryland--Baltimore

East Baltimore (Baltimore, Md.)--History--20th century.

Gentrification

Gentrification--Maryland--Baltimore

Johns Hopkins Medial Institutions

Save Middle East Action Committee, Inc. (Baltimore, Md.)

Urban renewal

Social reformers -- Maryland -- Baltimore.

Social action -- Maryland -- Baltimore.

Betty Garman Robinson was a community organizer in Baltimore, Maryland from the 1970s until her passing in 2020. She has contributed to multiple nonprofit and grassroots organizations including Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA), Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC), Save Middle East Action Committee (SMEAC), Northeast Good Neighbors (NEGN), and others. In 2003, Robinson was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship to teach the history of social justice and community organizing in Baltimore. This collection contains Robinson's community organizing records, correspondence, teaching documents, collected research and community organizing training materials, and organizational records.
This digital collection contains a selection of digitized materials from the Betty Garman Robinson Papers.

Robinson, Betty Garman, 1939-2020

Betty Garman Robinson Papers, University of Baltimore Special Collections & Archives.

1983-2017

Digital collection created by Mary McKinley (intern 2021)

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