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"[The] authors infuse the city and its history with life.... [Readers] will emerge with an uncommonly complete picture of the character of Baltimore and its people."
—Nancy Brennan, Executive Director, Baltimore City Life Museums
—Nancy Brennan, Executive Director, Baltimore City Life Museums
"The Baltimore Book tells the story of the real people of Baltimore—the true fabric of the city. These are the courageous individuals who fought for their right to work, and fought for their right to buy a home and live where they chose. Their goals and their struggle to achieve those goals is the real story of how a city grows."
—Barbara A. Mikulski, United States Senator from Maryland
—Barbara A. Mikulski, United States Senator from Maryland
"...'must' reading for anyone who wishes to develop a comprehensive view of the city's history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries...."
—Robert J. Brugger, Editor, Maryland Historical Magazine
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Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. "The Baltimore Book" is both a history of 'the other Baltimore' and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and, includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did. The tour begins at the B&O; Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid-19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves.We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th-century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and, Baltimore's 'renaissance' at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop. Author note: Elizabeth Fee is Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Linda Shopes is Associate Historian at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Linda Zeidman is Professor of History and Economics at Essex Community College.
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This review is from: The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History (Critical Perspectives On The P) (Paperback)
If you want to scratch below the well presented surface of Baltimore (Harbor Place, Camden Yards, Ravens Stadium, and the gentrified Fells Point and Canton), take a look at this book. Some of the socially and historically more important neighborhoods of Baltimore are given themed walking tours. Accompanying each tour is a historical and social narrative explaining why this particular corner of Baltimore mattered so much in the history and society of the city. It's a great way to find out new things about neighborhoods that have seen their ethnic charm and style replaced by affluent banality.
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- The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries) by Rhonda Y. Williams in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980 in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Communist Party in Maryland, 1919-57 by Vernon L. Pedersen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Baltimore Afro-American: 1892-1950 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Hayward Farrar on page 109, and Back Matter
- A Vision for Girls: Gender, Education, and the Bryn Mawr School by Andrea Hamilton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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