The Struggle and the Urban South

If you are interested in the beginnings of integration in Baltimore, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, this is an important book. It's too simple to conceive of the “Civil Rights Movement” as something that mainly took place in the 60s and then ended, although perhaps not by readers who would take the time to look into a work like this one. I for one as a Baltimore resident was interested in the particulars of how, say, the municipal golf courses in the city of Baltimore came to be desegregated.