The Struggle and the Urban South: Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore Before the Movement

by David Taft Terry

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in the South's largest cities. Terry also adds to our understanding of the underexplored historical period of the civil rights movement, prior to the 1960s.

Baltimore, one of the South largest cities, was a crucible of segregationist laws and practices. In response, from the 1890s through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820361755
• ISBN13: 9780820361758
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"