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African American Leaders of Maryland

A Portrait Gallery

Suzanne Ellery Chapelle and Glenn O. Phillips

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A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland’s extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall and equally brave yet not-so-famous Marylanders such as Ann Weems, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave, author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, physician Louise Young, and Harry Cummings, the first African American to hold public office in Baltimore City.

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8.5
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11
Pages
168
ISBN
9780938420699
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Suzanne Ellery Chapelle

Suzanne Ellery Chapelle is professor emerita of history at Morgan State University. She is the author of Baltimore: An Illustrated History and the coauthor of African American Leaders of Maryland: A Portrait Gallery.