The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
McElvey, Kay Najiyyah. Early Black Dorchester, 1776-1870: A History of the Struggle of African-Americans in Dorchester County, Maryland, to be Free to Make Their Own Choices. Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland at College Park, 1991.
Notes: The author examines selected events relating to Dorchester County's black population between 1776 and 1870 and their struggle to make their own political, economic, religious, and educational choices. The author also focuses on the enslaved and free leaders who led the fight for self-determination. The author hopes that her text will be used in high school classrooms as a local history of black Dorchester County.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Education, Politics and Law, Religion, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
McEwen, Phyllis. "Zora Neale Hurston: Genius of the South." Maryland Humanities (Fall 1997): 7-12.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Martin, Waldo E. The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Maxwell, Barry. "Frederick Douglass's Haven-Finding Art." Arizona Quarterly 48 (Winter 1992): 47-73.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Meier, August. "Benjamin Quarles and the Historiography of Black America." Civil War History 26 (June 1980): 101-16.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Meier, August. "Frederick Douglass's Vision for America: A Case Study in Nineteenth-Century Negro Protest." In Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience, edited by August Meier and Elliot Rudwick, 4-27. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1976.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Meier, August. A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965: Essays and Reflections. Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Meisenhelder. "Conflict and Resistance in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Mules and Men.'" Journal of American Folklore 109 (Summer 1996): 267-88.
Millner, Sandra Y. "Recasting Civil Rights Leadership: Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Movement." Journal of Black Studies 26 (July 1996): 668-87.
Notes: The author examines the neglect by scholars of civil rights leader Gloria Richardson. Richardson was not part of the established civil rights movement, nor has she been celebrated in the same manner as other civil rights leaders. The author examines the possible reasons for Richardson's marginalization in histories of the movement, which stem, in part, from scholars not questioning the language and the conceptions of gender and class used to describe Richardson in the press. Richardson also focused her attention on economic issues while the established civil rights leadership continued to focus on civil rights. She was also one of the first leaders to openly question the tactic on nonviolence. These additional factors also contributed to a lack of recognition of Richardson's role in the Cambridge Movement.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Mitchell, Luther Craven. The Attitude of the Baltimore Sun Papers toward the Negro from 1940-Pearl Harbor Attack. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1944.
Morgan, Winifred. "Gender-Related Difference in the Slave Narratives of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass." American Studies 35 (Fall 1994): 73-94.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Women, Nineteenth Century
Norman, Kelly Lynn. "The Language of Being and Metaphor of Autobiography in Frederick Douglass's Narrative." Reden 4, no. 6 (1993): 21-28.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Oliver, Egbert S. "The Founding Fathers-Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington; or The Idea of Democracy and a Tradition of Afro-American Autobiography." Amerikastudien/ American Studies 35, no. 3 (1990): 281-96.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Orser, Frank. "Tracy L'Engle Angas and Zora Neale Hurston: Correspondence and Friendship." Southern Quarterly 36 (Spring 1998): 61-67.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Twentieth Century
Pace, Charles Everett. "Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, Orator, Author, Editor." Maryland Humanities (January/February 1997): 11-15.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century
Putney, Martha S. "The Baltimore Normal School for the Education of Colored Teachers: Its Founders and Its Founding." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Summer 1977): 238-52.
Notes: The author examines the background of the founders and the founding of the Baltimore Normal School for the Education of Colored Teachers, which today is Bowie State College. The author traces the founding of the school to an endowment left by a free black man and the Society of Friends (Quakers). The founding of the school took place during a time when the notion of educating black people was not widely accepted.
Quarles, Benjamin. "Frederick Douglass: Bridge-builder in Human Relations." Negro History Bulletin 29 (1966): 99-100, 112.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century
Royer, Daniel J. "The Process of Literacy as Communal Involvement in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass." African American Review 28 (Fall 1994): 363-74.
"Selected Readings on Afro-Americans and Maryland's Eastern Shore." Maryland Pendulum 5 (Fall/Winter 1985): 6-7.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Smith, W. Wayne. "A Marylander in Africa: The Letters of Henry Hannon." Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (Winter 1974): 398-404.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing
Smyth, William D. "Water: A Recurring Image in Frederick Douglass' 'Narrative.'" CLA Journal 34 (December 1990): 174-87.
Thomas, Lamont D. "Paul Cuffe: Against the Odds in Vienna, Maryland." Log of Mystic Seaport 45, no. 4 (1994): 103-8.
Categories: African American, Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Trefzer, Annette. "'Let us all be Kissing-Friends?' Zora Neale Hurston and Race Politics in Dixie." Journal of American Studies [Cambridge] 31 (April 1997): 69-78.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century
Wax, Darold D. "The Image of the Negro in the 'Maryland Gazette,' 1745-75." Journalism Quarterly 46 (1969): 73-80.
Categories: African American, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century
Wennersten, John R., and Ruth Ellen Wennersten. "Separate and Unequal: The Evolution of a Black Land Grant College in Maryland, 1890-1930." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Spring 1977): 110-17.
Notes: The authors examine how Princess Anne Academy on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland developed after 1890 as a state and federally supported land grant school. Like other land grant schools, Princess Anne Academy was neglected by state and federal agencies. This academy was an example of separate education provided for blacks which demonstrated how land grant schools were indeed separate ad unequal.
Categories: African American, Education, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Somerset County, Eastern Shore