The U.S. city of Baltimore, Maryland (Chinese: 巴爾的摩; pinyin: bā ěr de mó) is home to a small Chinatown.

After World War I, the Chinatown moved "... two blocks north on Park Avenue and Mulberry Street because of city renewal.

This status forced many to also have some limited social interactions with the black community that the race riots of the 1960s largely spared Chinese owned businesses which were generally in Chinatown.

Expansion of Chinese influence was through additional Chinese Restaurants about town by names of The Rice Inn (Sandtown Winchester), The Ho Joy Restaurant (Middle River), The Rice Bowl (Glen Burnie), and Golden Star (Waverly).

Chinese language schools, at different times, were located in On Leong Association and Grace and Saint Peters Episcopal Church.

As early as the 1970s, Baltimore's Chinatown was in a state of decline to the point that the neighborhood was losing its Chinese characteristics.

[2] Another cause for the eastward migration was the anti-Chinese sentiment that was generally felt in the West Coast Chinatowns, such as San Francisco, which was fueled by the economic downturn of the late 1860s.

The laws and the courts generally gave little protection to the minority group and many fled eastward to escape the anti-Chinese riots, and the "... humiliation and persecution."