Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland

by C. Fraser Smith

Book Overview

Though he lived throughout much of the South--and even worked his way into parts of the North for a time--Jim Crow was conceived and buried in Maryland. From Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney's infamous decision in the Dred Scott case to Thurgood Marshall's eloquent and effective work on Brown v. Board of Education, the battle for black equality is very much the story of Free State women and men.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801888077
• ISBN13: 9780801888076
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

An excellent overview of Jim Crow in Maryland

C. Fraser Smith has made a very important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the Civil Rights struggle in Maryland. This book could serve as a textbook for a high school history honors class or college history class. But its readability takes it far beyond the textbook category. Very well written. More Americans, regardless of their race or ethnicity need to to understand what a long and arduous struggle it has been to "implement change" in improving rights for blacks. This book explains that struggle largely within the context of the State of Maryland's own story.