Career
As a still, influential former mayor of the City, he later supported the racial integration of the student body of musicians at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in the Peabody Institute in 1949, which preceded the beginnings of the civil rights movement of the mid to late 1950"s, the 1960s and into the 1970s. integration of the City"s generally smooth integration of the local Baltimore City Public Schools in September 1954, and added his support to later mayoral administrations of Mayors Thomas Lord Justice Doctorate"Alesandro, Junior., J. Harold Grady, and Board of School Commissioners efforts after the United States Supreme Court unanimous decision of May 1954, in "Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas". Under his first mayoralty, a large number of public schools were constructed, including several co-educational secondary schools including Forest Park High School in the northwestern City and a new "Castle on the Hill" landmark structure of Collegiate Gothic stone architecture for the "capstone of Baltimore"s public education": The Baltimore City College, third oldest public high school in America, when ground was broken and cornerstone laid in 1924.
When completed four years later it was the most expensive and elaborate high school built in America at the time.