Borders of Equality: The NAACP and the Baltimore Civil Rights Struggle, 1914-1970

A study of the Baltimore NAACP, its vanguard efforts, and its longtime president, Lillie M. Jackson As a border city Baltimore made an ideal arena to push for change during the civil rights movement. It was a city in which all forms of segregation and racism appeared vulnerable to attack by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's methods. If successful in Baltimore, the rest of the nation might follow with progressive and integrationist reforms. The Baltimore branch...