The road to Jim Crow : the African American struggle on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1860-1915 / C. Christopher Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, C. Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Segregation--Maryland--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History.

African Americans--Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.

Civil rights movements--Maryland--History.

Civil rights movements.

Race relations.

History.

Politics and government.

African Americans--Segregation.

Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--Race relations.

Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.).

Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--Politics and government.

Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)--History.

Maryland--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Maryland.

Maryland--Race relations.

African Americans--Politics and government.

United States--Eastern Shore.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 384 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

African American struggle on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1860-1915

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Maryland Historical Society, 2016.

Summary:

"An account of the African American struggle for equality of political and civil rights from the end of the Civil War to World War I. Although that struggle failed by the early twentieth century, a number of individuals managed to prosper and determinedly lead the struggle."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"A land apart"

The end of slavery

A new era

The Fifteenth Amendment comes to Maryland

Blacks' new political role

"The more money you make, the whiter your skin will be"

"We here demand of the Anglo Saxon equal rights"

Judge Lynch arrives on the Eastern Shore

Segregation and disfranchisement, 1895-1915

Life with Jim Crow

Jim Crow politics

Cambridge

a city unto itself

In retrospect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780996594417

0996594418

OCLC:

964065650

Publisher Number:

99971585920