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Title: Living the Lie: "Separate but Equal" in Cumberland, Maryland
Author: Lynn Bowman
Category: History
Price: $ 17.95
Language: English
Size: 8.5 x 11
Number of Pages: 140
ISBN Number: 978-1-61422-993-3
Publication Date: Dec., 2013
Website:
Email: lbowman@allegany.edu
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About this Book:
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Cumberland, Maryland is a small city in the Appalachian Upper South. With the bookends of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board, Living the Lie: “Separate but Equal” in Cumberland, Maryland examines the lives of the city’s African-American citizens. Using local newspapers, public records, personal stories and photographs, Lynn Bowman shines a light on what life was like Living the Lie.
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About the Author:
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An associate professor of English and Speech at Allegany College of Maryland, Lynn Bowman also serves her community as a member of Maryland’s Commission on African-American History and Culture. She is shown here with students from her African-American Literature class in front of Carver, the former “colored school” in Cumberland. After desegregation, the school served as the first home of Bowman’s workplace, ACM.
Lynn Bowman has written two previous books on African-American history in Allegany County: Being Black in Brownsville and Crossing into the Promised Land.
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