The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Floyd, Bianca. Records and Recollections: Early Black History in Prince George's County. Bladensburg, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1989.
Categories: African American, Family History and Genealogy, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Prince George's County
Kent, George Robert. The Negro in Politics in Dorchester County, Maryland, 1920-1960. M.A. thesis, University of Maryland, 1961.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Kohn, Howard. We Had A Dream: A Tale of the Struggles for Integration in America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Categories: African American, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Levy, Peter B. "The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, during the 1960s." Viet Nam Generation 6, nos. 3-4 (1995): 96-107.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
Levy, Peter B. "Civil War on Race Street: The Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance in Cambridge, Maryland, 1960-1964." Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (Fall 1994): 290-318.
Notes: The author examines Cambridge, Maryland in order to gain a local perspective on the civil rights movement. The author sets out to understand the movement at the grass roots level, instead of focusing on national leadership and civil rights legislation. Cambridge has been consistently overlooked in studies of the civil rights movement, and the author wonders if this has been the case since events in Cambridge do not fit neatly into typical historical narratives of the movement.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Dorchester County, Eastern Shore
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
Maryland-National Capital Park, and Planning Commission. The Social and Economic Status of the Black Population in Prince George's County, 1970-1980. Hyattsville, MD: The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1985.
Categories: African American, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
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
"'Pioneers' Promote Progress for Blacks." Prince George's County Today (July-August 1990): 7.
Categories: African American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
"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
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
Thornton, Alvin. Like a Phoenix I'll Rise: An Illustrated History of African Americans in Prince George's County, Maryland, 1696-1996. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company, 1997.
Categories: African American, County and Local History, Family History and Genealogy, Seventeenth Century, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Virta, Alan. "The Story of Ayuba Suleiman Ibrahima." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society, 12 (January 1984): 3-6.
Notes: African chieftain sold as a slave.
Wilson, Emily Wanda. The Public Education of Negroes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. M.A. thesis, Howard University, 1948.
Categories: African American, Education, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Talbot County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Berger, Howard S. Riverdale Historic Survey. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.
Berger, Howard S. Takoma Park Historic Survey. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, 1991.
Berke, Arnold. "A Prince of a County." Preservation News 27 (September 1987): 5.
Notes: Preservation efforts in Prince George's County.
Boucher, Jack E. Landmarks of Prince George's County. Upper Marlboro, MD: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission/National Park Service, 1993.
"Bowie Railroad Buildings Listed in the National Register of Historic Places." Friends of Preservation Newsletter 16 (Winter 1998-99): 1, 2.
"Brookeville: Jewel of a Village Keeps Historic Moment Living." The Preservationist 3 (May/June 1988): 4-5.
Brown, Marsha L. "Abraham Hall: A New Beginning." Passport to the Past 2 (January/February 1991): 1, 5-6.
Graham, Donald. "Montpelier Mansion--Its Second Restoration." Passport to the Past 1 (November/December 1990): 1, 4, 8.
Greider, Linda. "Victorian Comfort in Suburban Washington." Historic Preservation 37 (December 1985): 20-22.
Notes: Hyattsville.
"Historic Hitching Post Hill." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 16 (September 1988): 27-29.
"House and Garden Pilgrimage." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 23 (December 1995): 3-6.