{"id":4728,"date":"2025-05-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/?page_id=4728"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:59:13","slug":"maryland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/delegates-and-attendees\/maryland\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/Isaac_Myers.jpg\" alt=\"B&amp;W portrait of person in shirt, tie, and jacket.\" class=\"wp-image-4281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/Isaac_Myers.jpg 372w, https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/11\/Isaac_Myers-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Isaac Myers. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaac_Myers#\/media\/File:Isaac_Myers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WikiCommons<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Isaac Myers<\/strong> was a labor activist, organizer, and founder. When white carpenters excluded Black workers and refused to work with them, \u201cIsaac Myers, along with others, established a black-owned shipyard, the Chesapeake Marine Railroad and Dry Dock Company\u201d [1]. He also served as the president of the Colored Caulker\u2019s Trades Union Society of Baltimore, serving the interests of Black caulkers, who were often turned away at the Baltimore waterfront. In 1869, he called to order the <a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.coloredconventions.org\/items\/show\/591\">Colored National Labor Convention<\/a>, and \u201cwith strong support from Frederick Douglass, he organized the first national federated union of black workers, the Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)\u201d [2]. Myers and members of the CNLU, including John Mercer Langston, worked to galvanize Black workers in various states [3]. He also attended the <a href=\"https:\/\/omeka.coloredconventions.org\/items\/show\/544\">National Convention at New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1872<\/a>. His son, George A. Myers, was a barber and community leader in Cleveland [4].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[1] Mills, Quincy T. <em>Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America<\/em>, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, p. 282.<br>[2] Prescod, Janette. \u201cIsaac Myers,\u201d <em>Encyclopedia of African American Business: K-Z<\/em>, Jessie Carney Smith ed, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006, p. 552.<br>[3] Taylor, Nikki M. <em>America\u2019s First Black Socialist: The Radical Life of Peter H. Clark<\/em>, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, p. 132.<br>[4] Mills, p. 282.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credits<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Written by&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sqdevera.com\">Samantha de Vera<\/a>, University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edited by<\/strong>&nbsp;P. Gabrielle Foreman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Acknowledgements:&nbsp;<\/strong>Samantha de Vera and Michelle Byrnes for further edits, visualization contributions, and technical assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:15px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Myers was a labor activist, organizer, and founder. When white carpenters excluded Black workers and refused to work with them, \u201cIsaac Myers, along with others, established a black-owned shipyard, the Chesapeake Marine Railroad and Dry Dock Company\u201d [1]. He also served as the president of the Colored Caulker\u2019s Trades Union Society of Baltimore, serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4604,"parent":4625,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4728","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4728\/revisions\/4915"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloredconventions.org\/hbcus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}