Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction: Why Revisit Baltimore Now? 1
5. Part I. Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City
6. 1. The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore’s Early Public Markets 13
7. 2. “Shove Those Black Clouds Away!”: Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods in Baltimore before Brown 24
8. 3. “The Pot”: Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow Baltimore 37
9. 4. Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth Century to Today 52
10. 5. A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community in Baltimore 67
11. 6. Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy 73
12. Part II. Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City
13. 7. The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification in the Wake of Baltimore’s 1968 Uprising 87
14. 8. “The People’s Side of the Road”: Movement against Destruction and Organizing across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood 103
15. 9. More Than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore 118
16. 10. “Welfare Isn’t a Single Issue”: Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Movement, 1960s–1980s 128
17. 11. The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland’s Board of Motion Picture Censors, 1916–1981 137
18. 12. “Temple of the Drama” The Five-Year Protest at Ford’s Theater, 1947–1952 152
19. Part III. Voices from Here: Listening to the Past
20. 13. “Because They Were Also Downed People”: Black-Jewish Relationships in Baltimore during the 1968 Uprising and Beyond 163
21. 14. (snapshot) Korean Communities in Baltimore 178
22. 15. The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore’s Fells Point 185
23. 16. Overburdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore 197
24. 17. Finding Closure: The Poets of the Sparrows Point Steel Mill 210
25. 18. Baltimore’s Socialist Feminists—Lessons from Then, Lessons for Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s 216
26. 19. Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore 226
27. Part IV. Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore
28. 20. Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East Baltimore 243
29. 21. Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City 257
30. 22. Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown Baltimore 271
31. 23. Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp Leadenhall 286
32. 24. The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003–2015 293
33. 25. Under Armour’s Global Headquarters and the Redevelopment of South Baltimore 306
34. Part V. Democratizing the Archives
35. 26. Social History in the Archives: Baltimore’s Enduring Legacy 315
36. 27. Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore: Preserving the Baltimore Uprising 326
37. Afterword: Weaving Knowledges 335
38. Acknowledgments 337
39. Notes on Contributors 341
40. Index 349