Full Book Title: Mulatto: The Black History of Calvert County Maryland
Author: Kent, Michael Gayhart
Publisher/date: Middletown, DE, 2019
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged), portraits, facsimiles
Access: Go to this book’s record on Southern Maryland Regional Library Association’s catalog.
Keywords: African American, African American soldiers, African American business, antebellum, Calvert County, Chesapeake Bay, civic action, civic ideas, civil rights, civil war, colonial, colored schools, culture, desegregation, discrimination, diversity, enslaved, enslavement, freedom, Great Depression, integration, people of color, Southern Maryland, U S Colored Troops (USCT), biography, local author, WWII,
Time Periods:
1607-1763 Colonization to World War II
Themes:
Rural Life in Southern Maryland
African American People and Culture
Diversity in Southern Maryland
People, Places, and Our Southern Maryland Environment
Civic Ideas and Action
County: Calvert County
Summary:
Mulatto: The Black History of Calvert County relates the history of People of Color in Calvert County, Maryland from slavery to World War II. It includes biographical information on African American soldiers from Calvert County in World War I and II as well as information and profiles of businesses and churches that were built and owned by African Americans living in Calvert County.
The book documents the contributions of the Black citizens of Calvert County, Maryland from 1780 to 1950. The focus is on those people and events that affected national policies. For example, the author of the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision was from Calvert County, over six thousand Colored troops were trained in Calvert during the Civil War, and Thurgood Marshall had one of his first Civil Rights cases in Calvert County, Brown vs the Board of Education.
Additional Resources:
“Love of History Leads to the Writing of a Book” , SoMdNews.com, December 25,2019
