Brotherhood of Liberty - Black Reconstruction and Its Legacies in Baltimore, 1865-1920

Informationen zum Autor Dennis Patrick Halpin is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech. Klappentext Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late 19th and early 20th century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations. Zusammenfassung Dennis Patrick Halpin argues that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A Brotherhood of Liberty traces the civil rights victories scored by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and subsequent generations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. African Americans' Struggle to Define Freedom on the Border Chapter 2. Rebuilding a Radical African American Activist Foundation Chapter 3. The Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty and New Directions in Black Activism Chapter 4. The Creation of Baltimore's Racialized Criminal Justice System Chapter 5. "The Wave of Disfranchising Deviltry Has Gone to Its Utmost Northern Limits" Chapter 6. "The Struggle for Land and Liberty" Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Patrick Halpin
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780812251395
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5139-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous