Life in a Black Community: Striving for Equal Citizenship in Annapolis, Maryland, 1902-1952

Hannah Jopling

doi:10.5771/9780739183465

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2015
Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-8345-8
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-8346-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 351
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. Introduction No access
5. Publisher’s Note No access
1. Chapter One: Encounter, A Baseball Game, 1902 No access
2. Chapter Two: Bird’s-Eye View, 1902–1905 No access
3. Chapter Three: Struggles, 1902–1905 No access
4. Chapter Four: Own Worlds, 1902–1905 No access
1. Chapter Five: Encounter, A Hanging, 1917–1919 No access
2. Chapter Six: Bird’s-Eye View, 1905–1919 No access
3. Chapter Seven: Struggles, 1905–1919 No access
4. Chapter Eight: Own Worlds, 1905–1919 No access
1. Chapter Nine: Encounter, A Lawsuit, 1938–1940 No access
2. Chapter Ten: Bird’s-Eye View, 1919–1940 No access
3. Chapter Eleven: Struggles, 1919–1940 No access
4. Chapter Twelve: Own Worlds, 1919–1940 No access
1. Chapter Thirteen: An Encounter, A Parade, 1949 No access
2. Chapter Fourteen: Bird’s-Eye View, 1940–1949 No access
3. Chapter Fifteen: Struggles, 1940–1949 No access
4. Chapter Sixteen: Own Worlds, 1940–1949 No access
1. Chapter Seventeen: Encounter, A Demolition, 1952 No access
2. Chapter Eighteen: Bird’s-Eye View, 1949–1952 No access
3. Chapter Nineteen: Struggles, 1949–1952 No access
4. Chapter Twenty: Own Worlds, 1949–1952 No access
5. Chapter Twenty-one: Conclusion No access
Bibliography No access Pages 327 - 336
Index No access Pages 337 - 350
About the Author No access Pages 351 - 351