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.
Here, Baltimore Sun columnist C. Fraser Smith recounts that tale
through the stories, words, and deeds of famous, infamous, and
little-known Marylanders. He traces the roots of Jim Crow laws from
Dred Scott to Plessy v. Ferguson and describes the parallel and
opposite early efforts of those who struggled to establish freedom
and basic rights for African Americans. Following the historical
trail of evidence, Smith relates latter-day examples of Maryland
residents who trod those same steps, from the thrice-failed attempt
to deny black people the vote in the early twentieth century to
nascent demonstrations for open access to lunch counters, movie
theaters, stores, golf courses, and other public and private
institutions -- struggles that occurred decades before the
now-celebrated historical figures strode onto the national civil
rights scene. Smith's lively account includes the grand themes and
the state's major players in the movement -- Frederick Douglass,
Harriett Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Lillie May Jackson, among
others -- and also tells the story of the struggle via several of
Maryland's important but relatively unknown men and women -- such
as Gloria Richardson, John Prentiss Poe, William L. "Little Willie"
Adams, and Walter Sondheim -- who prepared Jim Crow's grave and
waitedfor the nation to deliver the body.
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