When 83-year-old civil rights activist Dr. Helena Hicks went out with her friends at Morgan State University in Baltimore in the 1950s, her friend — who passed as white — was always the one to hail the cab. The taxis wouldn’t stop for them otherwise.   Hicks, a UMD alumna, grew up in Baltimore at the height of segregation and the civil rights movement. “It’s … Continue reading Activist Helena Hicks shares experience as a black woman during the civil rights movement