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The Brotherhood of Liberty and it's members accomplished much for the African American community in Maryland during their time. In 1885 Everett Waring council member of the Brotherhood, became the first black attorney to practice law in the Maryland court system. Waring was the first black person admitted to the bar of Court of Appeals in 1880, this opened the door to allowing five more blacks from Baltimore to be allowed admittance to the University of Maryland School of Law in 1890. In 1889 William M. Alexander, an original member of the Brotherhood of Liberty, opened Public School No. 9, the first public school for negro children. In 1988 the Brotherhood celebrated at Irving Park the removal of the word "white" from statue books of Maryland.