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African Americans Maryland Baltimore Biography African Americans Maryland Baltimore Social conditions African Americans Social conditions Anne Arundel County (Md.) Genealogy Baltimore (Md.) Biography Coates, Ta-Nehisi Maryland Maryland Anne Arundel County Maryland Baltimore United StatesDoak, Robin S. (Robin Santos)
Summary: "This book explores the people, places, and history of the Maryland Colony"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.2 DOAClements, S. Eugene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Family Line Publications 1987
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3752 ClemeLangley, Sharon
Summary: "When Sharon Langley was born, amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed in. This picture book tells how a community came together--both black and white--to make a change. In the summer of 1963, because of demonstrations and public protests the Gwynn Oak Amusement Park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time. Sharon and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LANWatkins, D. (Dwight)
Summary: "At nine-years-old, D. Watkins has three concerns in life: picking his dad's lotto numbers, keeping his Nikes free of creases, and being a man. Directly in his periphery is east Baltimore, a poverty-stricken city battling the height of a crack epidemic just hours from the nation's capital. Watkins, like many boys around him, is thrust out of childhood and into a world where manhood means...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATKINS, D. (DWIGHT) WATBrumbaugh, Gaius Marcus
Summary: This work contains previously unpublished Revolutionary War records and consists chiefly of the names of those who subscribed to the Oath of Fidelity and Support from the early counties of Calvert, Frederick, Montgomery, and Washington. In addition, there is an extensive list of loyal civil servants of Prince George's County-constables, surveyors, justices, grand jurors, etc. The data,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1978
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 BRUSimon, David
Summary: At the center of the narrative is fifteen-year-old DeAndre McCullough. DeAndre's parents, Gary and Fran, were once poised, against all odds, to pull themselves up and out of West Baltimore. But when they themselves stumble and then succumb to the corner's temptations, DeAndre's future hangs in the balance. Smart and streetwise, he is both drawn to and wary of the drug trade that flourishes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.177 SIMThomas, William G.
Summary: The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history, in which a number of enslaved families challenged their bondage in court.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.3 THOJawando, Will
Summary: "A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAWANDO, WILL JAWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B JAWANDO JAWFenton, Justin
Summary: "Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year old black man who had died while in police custody. At the same time, drug and violent crime were surging, and that year, Baltimore would reach its deadliest year in over two decades: 342 homicides in a city of six hundred thousand people. Under intense scrutiny--and a federal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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Summary: Cemetery inscriptions of Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Arundel Genealogical Society 1975
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 GURKoford, Rebecca Whitman
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Genealogical Society 2021
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 KOFPeden, Henry C.
Summary: This new edition is a comprehensive research guide to all of Maryland’s family history resources, including libraries, archives, historical and genealogical societies. An updated bibliography includes hundreds of the most valuable genealogical book titles as well as available e-mail addresses, web sites, and fax numbers for all the state’s research centers and societies. The Guide is organized...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maryland Historical Society 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 PEDChaudry, Rabia
Summary: "In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at This American Life, in hopes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 CHACoates, Ta-Nehisi
Summary: "A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 COAPeden, Henry C.
Summary: This book is the winner of the 1993 Norris Harris Award. It was compiled for the purpose of serving as a "one volume research tool" for identifying the patriots, soldiers, seamen, and civil officers from Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who served in the Am
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Books 2000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3752 PEDSkordas, Gust
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1968
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3757 EARBowden, Mark
Summary: "In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.106 BOWMoore, Wes
Summary: Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2010
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Summary: From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, with searing conviction and full compassion, D. Watkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 WATCoates, Ta-Nehisi.
Summary: Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons through inner-city adolescence--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COATES, TANEHISI COAHylton, Antonia
Summary: "On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit 2024