Publisher's Synopsis
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 (NAACP)'s methods. If successful in Baltimore, the rest of the nation might follow with progressive and integrationist reforms. The Baltimore branch of the NAACP, one of the first, and the largest branch by 1946, undertook various forms of civil rights activity from 1914 to the 1940s that later were mainstays of the 1960s movement.
