A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, "Baby Joe" Gans, Leon Day, Lillie Carroll Jackson, and Thurgood Marshall and equally brave yet not-so-famous Marylanders such as Ann Weems, a fifteen-year-old runaway slave, author Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, physician Louise Young, and Harry Cummings, the first African American to hold public office in Baltimore City.
- ISBN10 0938420690
- ISBN13 9780938420699
- Publish Date 26 February 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Maryland Historical Society
- Format Paperback
- Pages 168
- Language English