African American Leaders of Maryland: A Portrait Gallery (Maryland Historical Society)

by SuzanneElleryChapelle (Author), Glenn O . Phillips (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $23.27

  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.