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Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in
Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over
what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks,
membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the
life of the town. For most whites, it meant the full participation
of only its white citizens, based on the presumption that their
black neighbors were less than equal citizens and had to be kept
down. All the dramas of the Jim Crow era-lynching, the KKK, and
disenfranchisement, but also black boycotts, petitioning for
redress of grievances, lawsuits, and political activism-occurred in
Annapolis. As they were challenging white prejudice and
discrimination, tenacious black citizens advanced themselves and
enriched their own world of churches, shops, clubs, and bars. It
took grit for black families to survive. As they pressed on, life
slowly improved-for some. Life in a Black Community recounts the
tactics blacks used to gain equal rights, details the methods
whites employed to deny or curtail their rights, and explores a
range of survival and advancement strategies used by black
families.
Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in
Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952 tells the story of a struggle over
what it meant to be a citizen of a democracy. For blacks,
membership in a democracy meant full and equal participation in the
life of the town. For most whites, it meant the full participation
of only its white citizens, based on the presumption that their
black neighbors were less than equal citizens and had to be kept
down. All the dramas of the Jim Crow era-lynching, the KKK, and
disenfranchisement, but also black boycotts, petitioning for
redress of grievances, lawsuits, and political activism-occurred in
Annapolis. As they were challenging white prejudice and
discrimination, tenacious black citizens advanced themselves and
enriched their own world of churches, shops, clubs, and bars. It
took grit for black families to survive. As they pressed on, life
slowly improved-for some. Life in a Black Community recounts the
tactics blacks used to gain equal rights, details the methods
whites employed to deny or curtail their rights, and explores a
range of survival and advancement strategies used by black
families.
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