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Hardcover Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland Book

ISBN: 0801888077

ISBN13: 9780801888076

Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland

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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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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.
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