Baltimore in the 1970s

What was 1970s Baltimore like? Great photos and stories from Baltimore in the 1970s.

By the 1970s new problems had surfaced. Formerly white schools had become mostly black schools, though whites still made up most of the faculty and administration. Worse, the school system had become dependent on federal funding. In 1974, these circumstances led to two dramatic incidents. A teachers’ strike highlighted the city’s unwillingness to raise teachers’ salaries because a hike in property taxes would further alienate white residents. A second crisis revolved around a federally mandated desegregation plan that also threatened to alienate the remaining white residents.