Marylandia Collection: Update

 

Marylandia Collection: Update

Contributed by Jordan Farinelli, Collection Development Librarian

February 2021

In honor of Black History Month, check out this title that covers the story of African Americans from Maryland’s own Eastern Shore.

U.S. History

DBC 12457 – The Road to Jim Crow: the African American Struggle on Maryland's Eastern Shore, 1860-1915, by C. Christopher Brown

Narrated by Khetia Washington

Making extensive use of primary sources, C. Christopher Brown has broken new ground and filled a long overlooked gap in Maryland history. Here is the story of African Americans on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, from the promise-filled days following the end of slavery to the rise of lynch law, segregation, and systematic efforts at disenfranchisement. Resisting attempts to render them, second-class citizens, Black communities rallied to their churches and fought determinedly to properly educate their children and gain a measure of political power. Brown’s vivid stories make the record of cross-racial democracy at once shameful, revealing, inspirational, and all too contemporary. A masterful blend of scholarship and insightful analysis that is at once engrossing and informative.