Dubbed the “premiere historian of Baltimore County,” Louis Sylvester Diggs was an author and U.S. Army veteran who worked to document the overlooked histories of Black communities in Baltimore County, Maryland. Born on April 13, 1932 in Baltimore, Diggs and his family faced the realities of racial segregation in the city and had to navigate with limited opportunities and social restrictions. In 1950, Diggs dropped out of Frederick Douglass High School and joined the all Black Maryland National G