| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland. By Peter B. Levy. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xviii, 242 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2638-5.)

Peter B. Levy's study of Cambridge, Maryland, significantly advances our understanding of both the black freedom struggle and the response by white elites. An associate professor of history at York College of Pennsylvania, Levy offers several compelling reasons for the wide import of this fascinating local study. The most popular and effective movement leader in Cambridge was a woman, Gloria Richardson. Richardson hailed from a prominent local family—her grandfather, Maynadier St. Clair, had served on the town council for fifty years. Indeed, the continued black access to the franchise during the Jim Crow era largely accounted for the town's reputation as having a more moderate system of white supremacy. But it was Richardson's teenage daughter who pulled her into the marches and sit-ins that engulfed Cambridge in 1962 and 1963 and catapulted her to leadership.

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