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When the brotherhood was established in Baltimore, there was no high school for African American children and no African American teachers. African American persons passed the examination to become a teacher, but the school board refused to appoint them as teachers. Separate African American schools had all Caucasian teachers. The brotherhood petitioned and appeared before the city council, the board of school commissioner and the city courts to resolve this issue. The school board said that there were not enough of African Americans on the Northwest side of Baltimore to have a public elementary school. The brotherhood enrolled 300 children at Shiloh Baptist Church and hired three teachers. The school board was convinced and the first new school for African Americans was built at Carrolton and Riggs Ave. The first African American appointed teacher and principal were Fannie Barbour and George Biddle. The school was not opened immediately because whites in the area were determined to take over the school and make it all-white.