The 2012 Murray Guide:
The Maryland Collection of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
(Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925)
Murray, a Baltimore native was an Associate Librarian at the Library of Congress;
his body of work included building the “Colored Author’s Collection” and a pamphlet
collection on African American life that was named after him.
AGRICULTURE
Carr, Lois, Russell R. Menard and Lorena S. Walsh. Robert Cole’s World:
Agriculture & Society in Early Maryland. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 1991.
Mumford, Willard R. Strawberries, Peas & Beans: Truck Farming in Anne
Arundel County. Arnold, MD: Anne Arundel County Historical
Society, 2000.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Leone, Mark P. The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital, Excavations
in Annapolis. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
Yentsch, Anne Elizabeth. A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves, a Study in
Historical Archaeology. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
ARCHITECTURE
Hayward, Mary Ellen and Belfoure, Charles. The Baltimore Rowhouse.
NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
Hayward, Mary Ellen. Baltimore’s Alley Houses: Homes for Working People
Since the 1780s. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
ART, CRAFT & PHOTOGRAPHY
Ashcraft, Mary Ann. Carving a Path to Freedom, The Life and Work of African
American Stonecarver Sebastian “Boss” Hammond. Greenfield, MA:
Association for Gravestone Studios, 2004.
Ciscle, George. Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds and Candlebugs: The Art of
Elizabeth Talford Scott. Baltimore, MD: MICA, 1998.
Kelbaugh, Ross J. Introduction to African American Photographs 1840-1950:
Identification, Research, Care & Collecting. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas
Publications, 2005.
Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society. Trails, Tracks, Tarmac: African
American Narrative Quilts from Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Hanover, MD: Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society, 2007.
Weekley, Carolyn J. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait
Painter. Baltimore, MD: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Maryland Historical Society, 1987.
ATLASES & MAPS
Hopkins, CF., G.M. Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington Including the
County of Prince George Maryland. Riverdale, MD: Prince George’s
County Historical Society, 1975.
Papenfuse, Edward C. The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of
Maryland, 1608-1908. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2003.
BIOGRAPHY
Aldred, Lisa. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice. NY: Chelsea House,
1990.
Ball, Charles. Fifty Years in Chains. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2003.
Bates, Wiley H. Researches, Sayings & Life of Wiley H. Bates. Annapolis,
MD: Philip L. Brown, 1999.
Bedini, Silvio A. The Life of Benjamin Banneker. New York: Scribner, 1972.
Blight, David W. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Boston, MA:
Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Butler, Loretta M. Grace—Struggle—Commitment: Memoirs of An African
American Woman. Washington, D.C.: The author, 2003.
Calloway, Cab and Brian Rollins. Of Minnie the Moocher & Me. New York:
Crowell, 1976.
Carter, Harold A. Determined Still: Celebrating 40 Years of Pastoring the New
Shiloh Baptist Church. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2005.
Cerami, Charles A. Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher,
Patriot. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
Chandler, Phyllis L. Heritage of Hope & Sacrifice: The Remarkable Journeys of
Rev. William Levington. Baltimore, MD: The Author, 2002.
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. NY: Back Bay
Books, 2004.
Dean, David M. Defender of the Race: James Theodore Holly Black Nationalist
Bishop. Boston, MA: Lambeth Press, 1999.
Douglass, Frederick. Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life, My Bondage &
My Freedom, and Life and Times. NY: Library of America, 1994.
Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. NY: Collier Books,
1971 reprint/1892.
Douglass, Frederick: My Bondage & My Freedom. NY: Dover Publications,
1969.
Golden, Marita. Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the
Color Complex. NY: Anchor Books, 2004.
Grant, Douglas. The Fortunate Slave: An Illustration of American Slavery in the
Early Eighteenth Century. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Haughton, Paul D. An Unremarkable Life In Remarkable Times. Annapolis,
MD: The author, 2006.
Henson, Josiah and Eliot, Samuel Atkins. The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a
Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada. LaVergne, TN: Biblio Life, 2009.
Hess, Debra. Thurgood Marshall: The Fight for Equal Justice. NJ: Silver
Burdett Press, 1990.
Holden, Adele V. Down on the Shore: The Family and Place that Forged a
Poet’s Voice. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 2003.
Kenny, Katherine and Eleanor Randrup. Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Freedom
Fighter. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2005.
Kravetz, Sallie. Ethel Ennis: The Reluctant Jazz Star. Baltimore, MD:
Gateway Press, 1984.
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman,
Portrait of an American Hero. NY: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Lowry, Beverly. Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life. NY: Doubleday, 2007.
Lupton, Mary Jane. Lucille Clifton: Her Life and Letters. Westport Conn.:
Praeger, 2006.
Massie, Dr. Samuel P. and Robert C. Hayden. Catalyst: The Autobiography of an
American Chemist. Laurel, Md. : S.P. Massie, 2001.
May, Jude Thomas. Achieving the American Dream: The Life of the Honorable
Aris T. Allen, M.D. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 1990.
McFeely, William S. Frederick Douglass. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.
Mills, Barbara. “…And Justice for All,”: The Double Life of Fred Weisgal
Attorney & Musician. Baltimore, MD: American Literary Press, 2000.
Moore, Wes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. NY: Spiegel &
Grau, 2010.
Ofari, Earl. “Let Your Motto Be Resistance”: The Life and Thought of Henry
Highland Garnet. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1972.
Pitts, Byron. Step Out On Nothing. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Platt, Anthony M. E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Plummer, Nellie Arnold. Out of the Depths or The Triumph of the Cross. NY:
G. K. Hall & Co., 1997.
Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. Washington, DC: The Associated
Publishers, Inc. 1948.
Quarles, Benjamin. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Rose, Al. Eubie Blake. NY: Schirmer Books, 1979.
Smith, Jr., Charles W. Roger B. Taney: Jacksonian Jurist. Chapel Hill, NC: The
University of North Carolina Press, 1936.
Smith, Mary Carter. My Autobiography: A Tale that is Told. Baltimore, MD:
The Author, 2004.
Tyson, John S. Life of Elisha Tyson the Philanthropist. Baltimore, MD:
B. Lundy, 1825.
Walker, Wilbert L. The Deputy’s Dilemma. Baltimore, MD: Heritage Press,
1987.
Ward, Samuel Ringgold. Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro. New York, NY:
Arno Press, Inc. 1968.
Watson, Denton L. Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell, Jr.’s Struggle for the
Passage of Civil Rights Laws. Lanham, MD: University Press of America,
2002.
Watts, Jill. God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story. Berkeley, Ca.:
University of California Press, 1992.
Welcome, Verda F. Verda F. Welcome: My Life & Times. Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Henry House Publishers, Inc., 1991.
Wiley, Elliott. RFL: Reginald F. Lewis: A Tribute. NY: Bookmark Publishing
Corp., 1994.
Williams, Gertrude. Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and
the Baltimore Public Schools. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Williams, Jr., Herman. Firefighter. Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, Inc., 2002.
Williams, Juan. Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. NY: Random
House, 1998.
Wood, Marcus Garvey. And Grace Will Lead Me Home: The Ministry of Rev.
Marcus Garvey Wood. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2004.
Collected Biography
Beckles, Frances N. 20 Black Women: A Profile of Contemporary Black
Maryland Women. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1979.
Bontemps, Arna. 5 Black Lives: The Autobiographies of Venture Smith, James
Mars, William Grimes, the Rev. G.W. Offley and James L. Smith.
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971.
Bragg, George F. Men of Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Church Advocate Press,
1914/rpt.
Chapelle, Suzanne E. & Glenn O. Phillips. African American Leaders of
Maryland: A Portrait Gallery. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical
Society, 2004.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely
Road to Manhood. New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2008.
Hill, Errol. Shakespeare in Sable: A History of Black Shakespearean Actors.
Amherst, Mass: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984.
Johnston, William R. William and Henry Walters, The Reticent Collectors.
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press and the Walters Art
Gallery, 1999.
Litwack, Leon and August Meier. Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Smith, David. The African American Presidents: The Founding Fathers of
Liberia 1848-1904. Atlanta, GA: New African American History Press,
2004.
Stauffer, John. Giants, the Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln. New York: Twelve, 2008.
Stegman, Carolyn B. Women of Achievement in Maryland History. University
Park, MD: Women of Achievement in Maryland History, Inc., 2002.
Swift, David E. Black Prophets of Justice: Activist Clergy Before the Civil War
Baton Rouge, LA.: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT TITLES
(Non-fiction and historical fiction)
Adler David A. A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall. NY: Holiday House,
1997.
Carbone, Elisa. Stealing Freedom. New York: Knopf, 1998.
Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery. The Maryland Adventure. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith,
2001.
DeGross, Mona Lisa. Grandaddy’s Street Songs. NY: Hyperion Books,
1999.
Giovanni, Nikki. Lincoln and Douglass, An American Friendship. New York:
Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later). New
York: Clarion Books, 2001.
Miller, William. Frederick Douglass, the Last Day of Slavery. New York: Lee and
Low Books, 1995.
Olmstead, Kathleen. Matthew Henson, The Quest for the North Pole. New
York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2008.
Taylor, M.W. Harriet Tubman: Antislavery Activist. NY: Chelsea House, 2005.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. Becoming Billie Holiday. Honesdale, PA:
Wordsong, 2008.
Weatherford, Carole Boston. I, Matthew Henson. New York: Walker and
Company, 2008.
Wyckoff, Edwin Brit. Heart Man: Vivien Thomas, African American Heart
Surgery Pioneer. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Elementary, 2008.
CHURCH & RELIGIOUS HISTORY
Austin, Thelma. From the Pulpit: Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Baltimore &
Vicinity. Washington DC: Praise Press, 2011.
Baltimore Conference, Histories of the AME Churches in the Baltimore
Conference. Baltimore, MD: The Church, 1996.
Barrett, Simone. From Humble Beginnings to a Profound Impact: A Brief
History of Lovely Lane United Methodist Church and Its Effect on African
American Community of Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Morgan
State University, 2010.
Beaman, Rush L. Historical Leadenhall Baptist Church 1872-1990. Baltimore,
MD: Leadenhall Baptist Church, 1990.
Carter, Harold A. Determined: A Faith History of a People Determined to Live
with Christ! Baltimore, MD.: Gateway Press, Inc. 1984.
The History Committee. We’ve Come This Far By Faith: 170th Anniversary of
Union Bethel Church, 1826- 1996. Randallstown, MD: Union Bethel AME
Church, 1996.
Knecht, Sharon C. Oblate Sisters of Providence: A Pictorial History. Virginia
Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2007.
Morow, Diane Batts. Persons of Color & Religious at the Same Time: The
Oblate Sisters of Providence, 1828-1860. Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 2002.
Ochs, Stephen. Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for
Black Priests 1871-1960. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University
Press, 1990.
Office of African American Ministries. What We Have Seen and Heard: Essays &
Stories from Black Catholic Baltimore. Baltimore, MD: Archdiocese of
Baltimore, 2005
Uqdah, Wali Muhammad and Rishidah R. Uqdah. A History & Narrative of
Muslim Americans in Baltimore, MD from 1945 – 2000. Baltimore, MD:
The Authors, 2003.
Watson, Jerome R. The Churches of Turner Station. Turner Station, MD: Turner
Station Heritage Foundation, 2002
CULINARY ARTS & FOODWAYS
Twitty, Michael. Fighting Old Nep: The Foodways of Enslaved Afro-Marylanders
1634-1864. Silver Spring, MD: Michael Twitty, 2006.
EDUCATION
Anne Arundel County
Brown, Philip L. A Century of “Separate But Equal” Education in Anne Arundel
County. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2002.
Brown, Philip L. The Stanton Elementary School Story. Annapolis, MD: The
author, 2001.
Baltimore City & County
Adams. William C. S. The Way They Were: Baltimore County’s Rural Colored
Schools 1900-1930. Columbia, MD: Billynn’s Productions, 2004.
Baum, Howell S. Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of
Liberalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010.
Crewe, Amy C. No Backward Step was Taken: Highlights in the History of the
Public Elementary Schools of Baltimore County. Baltimore County, MD:
Teacher’s Association, 1949.
Morrison, Brian C. Selected African American Educational Efforts in Baltimore,
Maryland During the Nineteenth Century. Baltimore, MD: Morgan State
University, 2008.
Watson, Jerome R. Remembering Our Schools: A History of African American
Education in Turner Station and Sparrows Point. Catonsville, MD: Jerome R.
Watson, 2004.
Frederick County
Onley, Joy Hall. Dear Old Faithful Lincoln. Frederick, MD: The Author, 1999.
Montgomery County
Clarke, Nina H. & Lillian B. Brown. History of the Black Public Schools of
Montgomery County, Maryland 1872-1961. Silver Spring, MD: Bartleby
Press, 1978.
Hill, Warrick S. Before Us Lies the Timber: The Segregated High School of
Montgomery County, Maryland, 1927-1960. Silver Spring, MD: Bartleby
Press, 2003.
Prince George’s County
Goddard, Richlyn F. Persistence, Perseverance & Progress: History of African
American Schools in Calvert County, Maryland, 1865-1965. [Maryland]:
Maryland Humanities Council, 1995.
Rosenwald Schools
Hoffschwelle, Mary S. Preserving Rosenwald Schools. Washington, D.C.:
National Trust, 2005.
St. Mary’s County
UCAC. In Relentless Pursuit of an Education: African American Stories from a
Century of Segregation (1865-1967). Leonardtown, MD: UCAC, 2006.
FOLKLIFE
Freeman, Roland L. The Arabbers of Baltimore. Centreville, MD: Tidewater
Publishers, 1989.
Krech, Shepard. Praise the Bridge that Carries You Over: The Life of
Joseph Sutton. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1981.
Roth, Hal. Conversations in a Country Store: Reminiscing on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore. Vienna, MD: Nanticoke Books, 1995.
Roth, Hal. Two Pieces of Clothes, A Conversation. Vienna, MD: Nanticoke
Books, 1995.
GENEALOGY
Anne Arundel County
Hynson, Jerry M. Anne Arundel County, Maryland Marriage Licenses
1865-1888. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2005.
Simmons, Christine N. & Theresa L. Harding. Grave Matters: AfricanAmerican & Slave Cemeteries, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Pasadena, MD: Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, 2004.
Baltimore City
Adams, William S. Baltimore County African Americans Volume I:
Census Records 1860 through 1880. Columbia, MD: The author, (circa
2000).
Adams, William S. Baltimore County African Americans Volume II: Census
Records 1900 through 1930. Columbia, MD: The author, (circa 2000).
BAAHGS. Western Star Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions. Baltimore, MD:
Baltimore Chapter of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical
Society, Inc., 2007.
Callum, Agnes Kan. Names of Applicants of Maryland Extracted from the
Register of Signature of Depositors in the Branches of the Freedman’s
Savings & Trust Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1865-1874. Baltimore,
MD: The author, 2005.
Baltimore County
Barnes, Robert. Baltimore County, Maryland Deed Abstracts 1659-1750.
Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1996.
Hynson, Jerry M. Absconders, Runaways & and Other Fugitives in the
Baltimore City & County Jail 1831-1864. Westminster, MD:
Heritage Books, 2004.
Cecil County
Hynson, Jerry M. Cecil County Maryland Indentures, 1777-1814. Westminster,
MD: Heritage Books, 2007.
Miller, Alice E. Cecil County, Maryland: A Study in Local History. Elkton, MD:
C & L Print & Specialty Company, 1949.
Dorchester County
McGill, Elaine Palmer. Dorchester County, Maryland Manumission Records
1806-1864, Riverdale, GA: EMC Books, 2001.
Eastern Shore
Adams, William C.S. Free Born: 350 Years of Eastern Shore African American
History, The Adams/Beckett Family. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2000.
Frederick County
Washington, Patricia. Little Children Blow Your Trumpets: The Family
History of Alice Frazier Bouldin 1812-1965. Baltimore, MD; Otter Bay
Books, 2010.
Harford County
Adams, Carolyn Greenfield. Hunter Sutherland’s Slave Manumissions & Sales in
Harford County, Maryland 1775-1865. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc.,
1999.
Adams, Wiliam & Carolyn. Harford County African Americans: Census Records
1860-1930 and Slave Records 1775-1864. Ellicott City, MD: The author,
circa 2000.
Peden, Jr., Henry C. African Americans in Harford County, Maryland, 17741864: A Compendium and Genealogical Guide to 10,000 Surnamed
African Americans Who Lived in Antebellum Harford County. Bel Air,
Md: Historical Society of Harford County.
Howard County
Howard County Genealogical Society. Howard County Maryland Records
Volume IV: Additional Cemeteries plus Manumission Records.
Columbia, MD: The Howard County Genealogical Society, 1985.
Kent County
Hynson, Jerry M. The African American Collection Kent County, Maryland.
Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1998.
Hynson, Jerry M. Maryland Freedom Papers, Volume 2: Kent County.
Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1997.
Surles, Trish. Commissioned Slave Statistics, Kent County, Maryland 1864:
Includes Civil War Enlistments, Liberian Immigration, Gambrills, MD:
Trish Surles, 2002.
Liberia
Shick, Tom W. Emigrants to Liberia 1820-1843: An Alphabetical Listing.
Newark, DE: Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, 1971.
Montgomery County
Andersen, Patricia Abelard. Montgomery County Land Record Miscellany.
Damascus, MD: Patricia A. Andersen, 2010.
Multiple Counties
Meyer, Mary K. Free Blacks in Harford, Somerset & Talbot Counties, Maryland,
1832. Mt. Airy, MD: Pipe Creek Publications, Inc., 1991.
Queen Anne’s County
Downes, Cathy. Queen Anne’s County, Maryland Certificates of Freedom 18071848. Centreville, MD: Queen Anne’s County Historical Society.
St. Mary’s County
Berry M.D., Leonidas H. I Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ For My Journey: Two
Centuries of an Afro-American Minister’s Family. Chicago, IL: Johnson
Pub. Co., 1981.
Callum, Agnes Kane. Kane-Butler Genealogy: History of a Black Family.
Baltimore, MD: Agnes K. Callum, 1979.
Somerset County
Handy, George. 1832 Census Coloured People of Somerset County, Somerset,
MD: Somerset County Government, 1812.
State of Maryland
Hait, Michael. Records of the Slave Claims Commissions, Vol. III: Journal of the
First Maryland Commission. MD: Hait Family History Research Services,
2011.
Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the
Colonial Period to 1810. Baltimore, MD: Clearfield, 2000.
Peden, Jr., Henry C.: A Guide to Genealogical Research in Maryland, 5/e
Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 2001.
Washington County
Fuller, Marsha Lynne. African American Manumissions of Washington County,
Maryland. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2001.
JOURNALISM
Farrar, Hayward. The Baltimore Afro-American 1892-1950. Westport,
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1998.
THE LAW
Higginbotham, F. Michael. Race Law: Cases, Commentary & Questions.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2005.
LETTERS, LITERATURE & POETRY
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from
Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford,
Connecticut, 1854-1868. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. A Brighter Coming Day. New York: Feminist
Press at the City University of New York, 1990.
Scruggs, Charles. The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of
the 1920s. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
Weaver, Afaa Michael. The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005. Pittsburg,
PA: University of Pittsburg Press, 2007.
Weaver, Afaa A. Talisman. Chicago: Tia Churcha Press, 1998
Weaver, Michael S. My Father’s Geography. Pittsburg, Pa.: University of
Pittsburg Press, 1992.
Weaver, Michael S. Timber and Prayer. Pittsburg, Pa.: University of Pittsburg
Press, 1995.
LOCAL HISTORY
Allegany County
Allegany High School. Allegany County Veterans of World War II, Through
Their Service. Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School, 2002.
Allegany High School. Hidden Stories, Discovered Voices: A History
of African Americans in Cumberland, Maryland. Cumberland, MD:
Fairmont Printing Company, 2010.
Allegany High School. The Lonaconing Silk Mill 1907-1957. Cumberland, MD:
Allegany High School, 1999.
Allegany High School. Primetime: A History of Allegany County During the
1950’s. Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School,
Allegany High School. Reflections of the Silver Screen: A History of Allegany
County Movie Theatres. Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School, 2000.
Allegany High School. Surviving the Great Depression: A History of Allegany
County During the 1930’s, An Allegany High School Oral History.
Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School, 2001.
Allegany High School. Work & Wait, Allegany County: The Home Front Years
1941-1945. Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School, 2003.
Bowman, Lynn. Being Black in Brownsville: Echoes of a “Forgotten” Frostburg.
Frostburg, MD: Lynn Bowman, 2011.
Anne Arundel County
Brown, Philip L. The Other Annapolis 1900-1950. Annapolis, MD: The Author,
2000.
Nelson, J.E., R.L. Langston and M. Dean Pinson. Highland Beach on the
Chesapeake Bay: Maryland’s First African American Incorporated
Town.Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Company Publishers. 2008.
Northern Arundel Cultural Preservation Society. Trails, Tracks, Tarmac: Lives
of African Americans in the History and Culture of Northern Anne
Arundel County 1850 to the Present. Hanover, MD: Northern Arundel
Cultural Preservation Society, 2008.
Baltimore City
Barbush, Elizabeth. Middle East Baltimore Stories: Images and Words from a
Displaced Community. Baltimore, MD: Save Middle East Action
Committee and Art on Purpose, 2009.
Bowditch, Eden Unger. Baltimore’s Historic Parks and Gardens. Charleston,
S.C: Arcadia Publishing, 2004.
Bowditch, Eden Unger and Anne Draddy. Druid Hill Park, the Heart of Historic
Baltimore. Charleston, S.C: History Press, 2008.
Bowditch. Eden Unger. Growing Up in Baltimore. Charleston, SC: Arcadia
Publishing, 2001.
Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes & Linda Zeidman. The Baltimore Book: New
Views of Local History, 1991. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press,
1991.
Hayward, Mary Ellen and Charles Belfoure. The Baltimore Rowhouse. New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.
Hayward, Mary Ellen. Baltimore’s Alley Houses. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2008.
Holechek, Jim. Baltimore’s Two Cross Keys Villages: One Black. One White.
New York, NY: IUniverse Inc., 2004.
Holcomb, Eric. L. The City as Suburb: A History of Northeast Baltimore, Since
1660. Chicago, IL: The Center for American Places, 2008.
McConnell, Roland C. The History of Morgan Park: A Baltimore Neighborhood
1917-1999. Baltimore, MD: Morgan Park Improvement Association, 2000.
Merrill, Philip J. and Uluaipou-O-Malo Aiono. Baltimore. Charleston, SC:
Arcadia, 1999.
Orser, W. Edward. Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story.
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1994.
Orser, W. Edward. The Gwynns Falls: Baltimore Greenway to the Chesapeake
Bay. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2008.
Pryor-Trusty, Rosa & Tonya Taliaferro. African-American Entertainment in
Baltimore. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Rich, Linda G., Joan Clark Netherwood and Elinor B. Cahn. Neighborhood, A
State of Mind. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
Ryon, Roderick N. Northwest Baltimore and Its Neighborhoods, 1870-1970
Before “Smart Growth” 1840-1960. Baltimore, MD: The University of
Baltimore, 2000.
Ryon, Roderick N. West Baltimore Neighborhoods, Sketches of Their History,
1840-1960. Baltimore, MD: The Institute of Publications Design at the
University of Baltimore, 1993.
Baltimore County
Adams, Carolyn Greenfield. Holding On To Heritage: Preserving Baltimore
County’s African American Cultural Heritage. Towson, MD: Goucher
College, 2007.
Adams, William S. Looking Back: Lutherville’s African American Community.
Columbia, MD: The author, circa 2000.
Diggs, Louis S. From the Meadows to the Point: The Histories of the African
American Community of Turner Station and What was the African
American Community in Sparrows Point. Baltimore, MD: The author,
Circa 2000.
Diggs, Louis S. Holding on to their Heritage. Baltimore, MD: The author,
1996.
Diggs. Louis S. In Our Voices: A Folk History in Legacy. Baltimore, MD:
The author, 1998.
Diggs, Louis S. It All Started on Winters Lane: A History of the Black
Community in Catonsville, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: The Author, 1995.
Diggs, Louis S. Our Struggles: Historic African American Communities
in Southeast Baltimore County, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: The author,
2007.
Diggs, Louis S. Since the Beginning: African American Communities in Towson.
Baltimore, MD: The author, 2006.
Diggs, Louis S. Surviving in America: Histories of 7 Black Communities in
Baltimore County, Maryland. Baltimore, MD: The author, 2002.
Watson, Jerome R. Turner Station. Charleston, S.C: Arcadia, 2008.
Cecil County
Miller, Alice Etta. Cecil County, Maryland, A Study in Local History, Elkton, MD:
C & L Print & Specialty Co., 1949.
Chesapeake
Meyers, Debra and Melanie Perreault. Colonial Chesapeake: New Perspectives.
New York: Lexington Books, 2006.
Middleton, Arthur Pierce. Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake
Bay in the Colonial Era. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1984.
Morgan, D. Philip. Slave Counterpoint, Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
Chesapeake & Lowcountry. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Published for the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Dorchester County
Henry, David “Nicky”. Up Pine Street: A Pictorial History of the AfricanAmerican Community of Cambridge, Maryland 1884-1951. Woodstock,
MD: David Henry, 2003.
Henry, David. Up Pine Street: A Pictorial History of the African American
Community of Cambridge, Maryland 1951-2007. Reisterstown, MD:
David Henry, 2007.
McGill, Elaine Palmer. Dorchester County MD Manumission Records 1806-1864.
Cambridge, MD: The author, 2001.
Reid, Donald L., et al. Cambridge Past &Present: A Pictorial History. Norfolk,
VA: Donning Co., 1986.
Eastern Shore
Marks, Carole. Lift Every Voice: Echoes from the Black Community on
Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Wye Mills, MD: Chesapeake College Press,
1999.
Harford County
Beims, Constance R. and Christine P. Tolbert. A Journey through Berkley,
Maryland: A Tapesty of Black and White Lives Woven Together Over 200
Years at a Rural Crossroads. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2003.
Montgomery County
Fly, Everett L. and La Barbara Wigfall Fly. Northeastern Montgomery County
Black Oral History Study. Rockville, MD: Montgomery County Dept. of
Housing & Community Development, 1983.
McDaniel, George. Black Historical Resources in Upper Western Montgomery
County, Maryland. Dickerson, MD: Sugarloaf Regional Trails, 1979.
Prince George’s County
Floyd, Bianca P. Records & Recollections: Early Black History in Prince
George’s County, Maryland. Riverdale, MD: M-NCPPC, 1989.
Pearl, Susan G. African-American Heritage Survey, 1996. Upper Marlboro, MD:
The Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission, 1996.
Rowe, Carolyn C., Jane T. Thomas and Beverly B. Woods. Prince George’s
County, Maryland. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
The Students of History 429. Knowing Our History, African American Slavery &
the University of Maryland. College Park, MD: University of Maryland,
2009.
Thornton, Alvin and Karen W. Gooden. Like a Phoenix I’ll Rise: An
Illustrated History of African Americans in Prince George’s County,
Maryland, 1696-1996. Upper Marlboro, MD: Pyramid Visions, Inc., 1997.
Van Horn, R. Lee. Out of the Past, Prince Georgeans and Their Land. Riverdale,
Md: Bookcrafters, 1996.
Queen Anne’s County
Emory, Frederic. Queen Anne’s County Maryland, its Early History &
Development. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 1950.
State of Maryland
Chapelle, Suzanne Ellery. The Maryland Adventure. Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs
Smith, 2001.
Powell, Michael and Bruce A. Thompson. Mid-Maryland: A Crossroads of
History. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2005.
Uzzell, Steve. Maryland. Portland, Ore: Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co., 1983.
Wicomico County
Duyer, Linda. ‘Round the Pond: Georgetown of Salisbury, Maryland.
Salisbury, MD: Linda Duyer, 2007.
Klein, Mary O. These Roots Were Free…San Domingo: A Community of Free
Black Pioneers. Mardela Springs, MD: Westside Historical Society, 1994.
MARITIME LIFE
Leggett, Vincent O. The Chesapeake Bay Through Ebony Eyes. Annapolis, MD:
Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation, 1999.
MEDICINE & SCIENCE
Avery, Catherine H. A Century of Caring: A History of Anne Arundel Medical
Center, 1902-2002. Annapolis, MD: Anne Arundel Medical Center, 2002.
Elias, Sarah Davis. Provident Hospital: A Chronology of the Baltimore Hospital
1894-1986. Baltimore, MD: C. H. Fairfax Company, Publishers, 2010.
McWilliams, Jane W. The First 90 Years: A History of Anne Arundel Medical
Center. Annapolis, MD: Anne Arundel Medical Center, 1992.
Sewell, Jane Eliot. Medicine in Maryland: The Practice & Profession,
1799-1999. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York, NY: Crown
Publishing, 2010.
MILITARY HISTORY
Griggs, William E. The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska
Military Highway. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.
Hanna, Charles W. African American Recipients of the Medal of Honor, a
Biographical Dictionary, Civil War Through Vietnam War. Jefferson, NC:
McFarland & Co., 2002.
Schneller, Jr., Robert J. Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval
Academy’s First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality.
NY: NY University Press, 2005.
Stillwell, Paul: The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval
Officers. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1993.
Walker, Wilbert L. We Are Men: Memoirs of World War II and the Korean War
Baltimore, MD: Heritage Press, 1972.
Civil War
Callum, Agnes Kane. Colored Volunteers of Maryland, Civil War 7th Regiment
U.S. Colored Troops 1863-1866. Baltimore, MD: Mullac Publishers, 1990.
Claxton, Melvin and Mark Puls. Uncommon Valor: A Story of Race, Patriotism,
and Glory in the Final Battles of the Civil War. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley
& Sons, 2006.
Eshelman, Ralph E., Shomette, Donald G. and Post, G. Howard. Benedict,
Maryland, Cultural Resource Survey and Context Study. LaPlata, MD:
The Charles County Department of Planning and Growth Management,
2009.
Mitchell, Charles W. Maryland Voices of the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Schildt, John W. September Echoes: The Maryland Campaign of 1862: The
Places, the Battles, the Results. Shippensburg, PA: Beiden Print House,
1980.
Small, Clara and David Briddell. “Men of Color, to Arms!”: Manumitted Slaves
and Freed Blacks from the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Who Served
in the Civil War. Fruitland, MD: Arcadia Enterprises, Inc., 2010
MUSIC
Osteen, Mark and Frank J. Graziano. Music at the Crossroads: Lives & Legacies
of Baltimore Jazz. Baltimore, MD: Apprentice House, 2010.
PAPERS & PAMPHLETS
Blassingame, John W. The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One: Speeches,
Debates, and Interviews, Vol. 1, 1841-1846. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press. 1979.
Blassingame, John W. The Frederick Douglass Papers Series One: Speeches,
Debates, and Interviews, Vol. 2, 1847-1854. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press. 1979.
Porter, Dorothy. Negro Protest Pamphlets. New York, NY: Arno Press, Inc.,
1969.
POLITICAL & SOCIAL ISSUES
Barnes, Brooks Miles, Gallows on the Marsh. Eastville, VA: Books of the Shore,
2006.
Ifill, Sherrilyn A. On the Court-House Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of
Lynching in the Twenty-First Century. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2007.
McDougall, Harold A. Black Baltimore: A New Theory of Community.
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993.
Moore, Joseph E. Murder on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: Race, Politics and the
Case of Orphan Jones. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2003.
Smith C. Fraser. Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland. Baltimore, MD:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Williams, Rhonda Y. The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggle
Against Urban Inequality. NY: Oxford University, Press, 2004.
Civil Rights
Levy, Peter B. Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in
Cambridge, Maryland. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Nathan, Amy. Round & Round Together: Taking a Merry-Go-Round into the
Civil Rights Movement. Philadelphia, PA: Paul Dry Books, 2011.
Smith, C. Fraser. Here Lies Jim Crow: Civil Rights in Maryland. Baltimore,
MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
RECONSTRUCTION
Fuke, Richard Paul. Imperfect Equality: African Americans and the Confines of
White Racial Attitudes in Post-Emancipation Maryland. NY: Fordham
University Press, NY, 1999.
SLAVERY & ABOLITION
Agle, Nan Hayden: Free to Stay: The True Story of a Former Slave and the
Family She Adopted. Salisbury, MD: Arcadia Enterprises, Inc., 2000.
Apple, Sue Denhard. Out of Slavery: A Primary Source Kit from the
Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical
Society, (nl).
Brackett, Jeffrey Richardson. The Negro in Maryland, a Study of the Institution
of Slavery. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.
Callcott, Margaret Law. Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of
Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1991.
Carr, Lois G., Russell R. Menard & Louis Peddicord. Maryland at the beginning.
Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives, 1991.
Carr, Lois G., Philip D. Morgan and Jean B. Russo. Colonial Chesapeake
Society. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of NC Press, 1988.
Clayton, Ralph. Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave
Trade. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2002.
Davis, David Brion. Slavery in the Colonial Chesapeake. Williamsburg, VA:
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986.
Federal Writers’ Project. Maryland Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery
in Maryland from Interviews with Former Slaves. Bedford, Mass:
Applewood Books/The Library of Congress, 2006.
Fields, Barbara Jeanne. Slavery & Freedom on the Middle Ground: Maryland
during the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1985.
Glass, Jesse. The Witness: Slavery in Nineteenth Century Carroll County,
Maryland. Chiba-Ken, Japan: Meikai University Press, 2004.
Godwin, Stefan. The Task Force to Study the History & Legacy of Slavery in
Maryland. Annapolis, MD: State of Maryland, 1999.
Graham, Leroy. Baltimore: The Nineteenth Century Black Capital.
Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from
Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford,
Connecticut, 1854-1868. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Hall, Richard L. On Afric’s Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia 1834-1857.
Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 2003.
Kulikoff, Allan. Tobacco & Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in
the Chesapeake, 1680 – 1800. Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press,
1986.
Lewis, Ronald L. Coal, Iron and Slaves: Industrial Slavery in Maryland and
Virginia. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Maryland State Archives. A Guide to the History of Slavery in Maryland.
Annapolis, MD: Maryland State Archives & the Univ. of Maryland, 2007.
Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Chesapeake & Lowcountry. Chapel Hill, NC: University North Carolina
Press, 1998.
Phillips, Christopher. Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of
Baltimore, 1790-1860. Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 1997.
Quarles, Benjamin. Black Abolitionists. NY: Da Capo Press, 1969.
Rieve, Rebecca. Slave Houses of Howard County. 1992.
Rockman, Seth. Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early
Baltimore. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Students of History 429. Knowing Our History: African American Slavery and
the University of Maryland. College Park, MD: The University of
Maryland, 2009.
Wade, Richard C. Slavery in the Cities: The South 1820-1860. NY: Oxford
University Press, 1964.
Wagandt, Charles Lewis. The Mighty Revolution: Negro Emancipation in
Maryland, 1862-1864. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Historical Society, 2004.
Wennersten, John R. Maryland’s Eastern Shore: A Journey in Time &
Place. Centreville, MD: Tidewater Publishers, 1992.
Whitman, T. Stephen. Challenging Slavery in the Chesapeake: Black & White
Resistance to Human Bondage, 1775-1865. Baltimore, MD: The
Maryland Historical Society, 2007.
Whitman, T. Stephen. The Price of Freedom: Slavery and Manumission in
Baltimore and Early National Maryland. NY: Routledge, 2000.
Wright, James M. The Free Negro in Maryland, 1634-1860. NY: Octagon
Books, 1971.
SPORTS & RECREATION
Aycock, Colleen and Mark Scott. Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African
American World Boxing Champion. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008.
Harrison, Miles and Chip Silverman. Ten Bears. Baltimore, MD: Positive
Publications, 2001.
Luke, Bob. The Baltimore Elite Giants: Sport and Society in the Age of Negro
League Baseball. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2009.
Scharf, Thomas. Baltimore’s Boxing Legacy 1893-2003. Charleston, SC:
Arcadia, 2003.
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
Cohen, Anthony. The Underground Railroad in Montgomery County, Maryland:
A History and Driving Guide. Rockville, MD: The Montgomery County
Historical Society, 1994.
DeRamus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground
Railroad. NY: Atria Books, 2005.
Guida, Patricia C. Arthur W. Leverton, Underground Railroad Agent, and his
family: The Levertons, Whiteleys and Wrights. Denton, MD: Caroline
County Historical Society, 2007.
Michael, Peter H. An American Family of the Underground Railroad.
Bloomington, In: Author House, 2005.
Moss, Paulina C. & Levirn Hill. Seeking Freedom: A History of the
Underground Railroad in Howard County, Maryland. Columbia, MD:
The Howard County Center of African American Culture, Inc., 2002.
Ricks, Mary Kay. Escape on the Pearl: the Heroic Bid for Freedom on the
Underground Railroad. New York: William Morrow, 2007.
Switala, William J. The Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland &
West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004.
Tobin, Jacqueline. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the
Underground Railroad. NY: Doubleday, 2007.
Walsh, J.O.K. A Brief Overview of the Impact of the Chesapeake Bay on the
Conduct of the Underground Railroad. Denton, MD: Caroline County
Historical Society, 2002.
WOMEN’S HISTORY
Maryland Women’s History Project. Maryland Women’s Heritage Trail Resource
Kit. Baltimore, MD: Maryland State Department of Education, (NL).