This essay reflects on the use and value of Voices of Baltimore: Life under Segregation, a documentary film that captures and preserves the rich oral histories of seven African Americans from the Mason-Dixon border area of Baltimore, Maryland who attended segregated schools and lived through desegregation before and following the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v Board of Education ruling. As a teaching tool, Voices of Baltimore is intended to engage students and adults in thoughtful discussion and critical analysis of the complex social, cultural, and political forces surrounding legal segregation and how they are reflected in schools and society today. The work is a multi-dimensional research project that has many uses beyond preserving these invaluable stories. In addition to the film three K12 curriculum guidebooks are available for for elementary, middle and high schools, as well one for the university level to pre-service and in-service teachers, schools and universities, community members and others to learn more about Baltimore figures where the norms were in conflict with the very nature of democracy.