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About this book
Baltimore has a long, colorful history that traditionally has been focused on famous men, social elites, and patriotic events. The Baltimore Book is both a history of "the other Baltimore" and a tour guide to places in the city that are important to labor, African American, and women's history. The book grew out of a popular local bus tour conducted by public historians, the People's History Tour of Baltimore, that began in 1982. This book records and adds sites to that tour; provides maps, photographs, and contemporary documents; and includes interviews with some of the uncelebrated people whose experiences as Baltimoreans reflect more about the city than Francis Scott Key ever did.
The tour begins at the B&O Railroad Station at Camden Yards, site of the railroad strike of 1877, moves on to Hampden-Woodbury, the mid-19th century cotton textile industry's company town, and stops on the way to visit Evergreen House and to hear the narratives of ex-slaves. We travel to Old West Baltimore, the late 19th-century center of commerce and culture for the African American community; Fells Point; Sparrows Point; the suburbs; Federal Hill; and Baltimore's "renaissance" at Harborplace. Interviews with community activists, civil rights workers, Catholic Workers, and labor union organizers bring color and passion to this historical tour. Specific labor struggles, class and race relations, and the contributions of women to Baltimore's development are emphasized at each stop.
In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Toward a New History of Baltimore
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Camden Yards and the Strike of l877
- 2. Evergreen House and the Garrett Family: A Railroad Fortune
- 3. Hampden-Woodberry: Baltimore's Mill Villages
- 4. Old West Baltimore: Segregation, African-American Culture, and the Struggle for Equality
- 5. The City That Tries to Suit Everybody: Baltimore's Clothing Industry
- 6. East-Side Union Halls: Where Craft Workers Met, 1887-1917
- 7. Fells Point: Community and Conflict in a Working-Class Neighborhood
- 8. Radicalism on the Waterfront: Seamen in the 1930s
- 9. Sparrows Point, Dundalk, Highlandtown, Old West Baltimore: Home of Gold Dust and the Union Card
- 10. Flight to the Suburbs:Suburbanization and Racial Change on Baltimore's West Side
- 11. A View from Federal Hill
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Photo Sources
- About the Contributors
- Index