54.      Maryland Law School Catalogue, 1890.

55.       Minutes of the Faculty of Physic, p. 283, October 8, 1889 - "The Dean then presented the
application of two negro students for admission to the University. After general
discussion it was: - Moved: - (Chew) That the Dean be instructed to say in answer to the
applications, that the Faculty deem it inexpedient to admit colored students to the medical
class. Carried."

56.       Margaret Law Callcott, "The Negro in Maryland Politics 1870(c)1912" 55 (Baltimore:
- Johns Hopkins Press, 1969).

57.       Id. See also William George Paul, "The Shadow of Equality: The Negro in Baltimore,
1864-1911," 183 (Ph. D. Thesis Wisconsin 1972) and Baltimore Sun, October 14, 17, 26,
29, 30 and November 4,1889.

58.      John R. Lambert, Arthur Pue Gorman 127 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1953).

59.      Baltimore American, September 15, 1890. "Some time last winter, he [Dean Poe] said, a
petition against the admission or retention of colored students was laid before the faculty,
signed by nearly all of the ninety-nine students. The matter had been continuously
agitated since that time, and this summer the regents into whose hands the question was
left for adjudication had held several meetings, and considered it very carefully in all its
bearings." See also New York Times. September 15, 1890, p. 1, col. 2.

60.       Suzanne Ellery Greene, "Black Republicans on the Baltimore City Council, 1890-1931,"
74 Md. Hist. Mag. 203. 205. 216 (1979}.

61.      The Morning Herald, Baltimore, August 9, 1890. "The Baltimore University School of
Law has now been fully organized, and all the professors have been selected and their
different subjects assigned to them. . .. The new school will be the only one in the state
where all the lectures will be delivered at night. This feature will make it successful from
the beginning, as there are many persons who would like to take a course of law, not to
practice it as a profession, but simply to acquire a knowledge for use in the business
relations of life. Those connected with the school say that they are receiving many
inquiries from young business men of this city, as well as their clerks, who intend to take
the course. ... A neat prospectus has been issued, calling attention to the opening of the
school, which will be on Wednesday, October 1."

62.       Baltimore American. September 15, 1890, p. 2.

63.       Maryland Law School Catalogues, 1888 and 1890. The three year course began in 1883
with a class of 53. Enrollment rose steadily thereafter [1884-5 - 65; 1885-6 - 71; 1886-7 -
90; 1887-8 - 101; 1888-9 - 108].   The pattern ceased in 1889 as the total enrollment fell
to 99. The dismissal of Dozier and Hawkins in 1890 coincided with a slight increase for

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