Here Lies Jim Crow : Civil Rights in Maryland Hardcover - 2008
by Smith, C. Fraser
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Here Lies Jim Crow : Civil Rights in Maryland
- Author Smith, C. Fraser
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 2008-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 15130783-6
- ISBN 9780801888076 / 0801888077
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.58 x 1.08 in (23.44 x 16.71 x 2.74 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Maryland
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Civil rights - Maryland, Maryland - Race relations - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007040062
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.119
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From the publisher
From the jacket flap
The battle for black equality in the United States draws heavily from the stories of Free State women and men. C. Fraser Smith's lively account includes the grand themes and the state's major players in the movement--Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Sondheim, Theodore R. McKeldin, and Parren J. Mitchell, among others--and also tells the story of the struggle via several of Maryland's important but relatively unknown men and women--such as Lillie May Jackson, John Prentiss Poe, William L. "Little Willie" Adams, and Gloria Richardson--who prepared Jim Crow's grave and waited for the nation to deliver the body.
While the book elaborates on Maryland's role in the beginning and end of the Jim Crow era, the most compelling aspect of the book is the stories Smith gleaned from dozens of interviews with Marylanders, black and white, who lived with segregation and fought to end its practices.--Baltimore Sun
Hand it to your students . . . and make sure their parents read it, too. It's a road map of America's long political struggle from slavery to a black man running for president.--Michael Olesker, Baltimore Examiner
By its very nature a moving but difficult and painful read. Painful or not, it is a book that helps one see present-day Maryland with a greater depth of understanding, and is certainly worth whatever discomfort it creates.--BaltimoreCity Paper
--Jennifer B. Bodine Esq., Curator, AAubreyBodine.com "Bay Weekly"Media reviews
Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2009, Page 72
