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Life in a Black Community
Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952
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2015
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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.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8345-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8346-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
351
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List of Figures No access
Acknowledgements No access
Introduction No access
Publisher’s Note No access
Chapter One: Encounter, A Baseball Game, 1902 No access
Chapter Two: Bird’s-Eye View, 1902–1905 No access
Chapter Three: Struggles, 1902–1905 No access
Chapter Four: Own Worlds, 1902–1905 No access
Chapter Five: Encounter, A Hanging, 1917–1919 No access
Chapter Six: Bird’s-Eye View, 1905–1919 No access
Chapter Seven: Struggles, 1905–1919 No access
Chapter Eight: Own Worlds, 1905–1919 No access
Chapter Nine: Encounter, A Lawsuit, 1938–1940 No access
Chapter Ten: Bird’s-Eye View, 1919–1940 No access
Chapter Eleven: Struggles, 1919–1940 No access
Chapter Twelve: Own Worlds, 1919–1940 No access
Chapter Thirteen: An Encounter, A Parade, 1949 No access
Chapter Fourteen: Bird’s-Eye View, 1940–1949 No access
Chapter Fifteen: Struggles, 1940–1949 No access
Chapter Sixteen: Own Worlds, 1940–1949 No access
Chapter Seventeen: Encounter, A Demolition, 1952 No access
Chapter Eighteen: Bird’s-Eye View, 1949–1952 No access
