Salima S. Marriott, Maryland State Delegate

State Delegate Salima Marriott (Democrat 40th District) welcomed the Freedom Riders to Baltimore and Maryland. Marriott said to the Freedom Riders that it is important that they were in Maryland because the Maryland General Assembly had just passed a law which would allow the children of immigrants in-state tuition, but the governor vetoed it. Marriott remembered how the 1960s Freedom Riders helped open doors for her, as an African American woman, to complete graduate education in social work. Marriott said that we must "have justice and education for all."