Compass Points Volume 4 by Dr. Clara L. Small
Did you know...
… an aide to President Eisenhower, Secret Service agent, and an eye witness to history was born here?
… an award-winning duck carver, educator, and political activist lives on Delmarva?
… a World War II veteran, member of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion - an all black elite female group - is the subject of Tyler Perry’s upcoming move Six Triple Eight?
… the first African American female medical doctor and author was born on Delmarva?
… a pharmaceutical executive, actress, and cowgirl called Delmarva home?
… the first African American and first woman elected mayor of Cambridge lives here?
… the first African American Chief of Police on Delmarva and first African American Councilman of Trappe was born on the peninsula?
If one would plot a compass on the Delmarva Peninsula and expand it to 60 or 90 degrees, one would cover the locations or sites where the most famous African Americans lived in this country’s history. Names like Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass would rise in an instant, but there are many others to discover. In this collection, Dr. Clara Small explores and uncovers an incredible history about 65 African-Americans who lived on the Delmarva Peninsula and who made a lasting impact on the people, communities, and cultural landscapes.
Compass Points Volume 4 is Small's seventh book. Her other works include Compass Points Volumes 1, 2, and 3 as well as The Last Black Skipjack Captain, Reality Check: Brief Biographies of African-Americans on Delmarva, released in 1998 and Men of Color to Arms! Manumitted Slaves and Free Blacks from the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Who Served in the Civil War, co-authored with David Briddell and They Wore Blue and Their Hearts Were Loyal: The United States Colored Troops of Dorchester County, Maryland.
Did you know...
… an aide to President Eisenhower, Secret Service agent, and an eye witness to history was born here?
… an award-winning duck carver, educator, and political activist lives on Delmarva?
… a World War II veteran, member of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion - an all black elite female group - is the subject of Tyler Perry’s upcoming move Six Triple Eight?
… the first African American female medical doctor and author was born on Delmarva?
… a pharmaceutical executive, actress, and cowgirl called Delmarva home?
… the first African American and first woman elected mayor of Cambridge lives here?
… the first African American Chief of Police on Delmarva and first African American Councilman of Trappe was born on the peninsula?
If one would plot a compass on the Delmarva Peninsula and expand it to 60 or 90 degrees, one would cover the locations or sites where the most famous African Americans lived in this country’s history. Names like Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass would rise in an instant, but there are many others to discover. In this collection, Dr. Clara Small explores and uncovers an incredible history about 65 African-Americans who lived on the Delmarva Peninsula and who made a lasting impact on the people, communities, and cultural landscapes.
Compass Points Volume 4 is Small's seventh book. Her other works include Compass Points Volumes 1, 2, and 3 as well as The Last Black Skipjack Captain, Reality Check: Brief Biographies of African-Americans on Delmarva, released in 1998 and Men of Color to Arms! Manumitted Slaves and Free Blacks from the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Who Served in the Civil War, co-authored with David Briddell and They Wore Blue and Their Hearts Were Loyal: The United States Colored Troops of Dorchester County, Maryland.
Did you know...
… an aide to President Eisenhower, Secret Service agent, and an eye witness to history was born here?
… an award-winning duck carver, educator, and political activist lives on Delmarva?
… a World War II veteran, member of the 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion - an all black elite female group - is the subject of Tyler Perry’s upcoming move Six Triple Eight?
… the first African American female medical doctor and author was born on Delmarva?
… a pharmaceutical executive, actress, and cowgirl called Delmarva home?
… the first African American and first woman elected mayor of Cambridge lives here?
… the first African American Chief of Police on Delmarva and first African American Councilman of Trappe was born on the peninsula?
If one would plot a compass on the Delmarva Peninsula and expand it to 60 or 90 degrees, one would cover the locations or sites where the most famous African Americans lived in this country’s history. Names like Harriett Tubman and Frederick Douglass would rise in an instant, but there are many others to discover. In this collection, Dr. Clara Small explores and uncovers an incredible history about 65 African-Americans who lived on the Delmarva Peninsula and who made a lasting impact on the people, communities, and cultural landscapes.
Compass Points Volume 4 is Small's seventh book. Her other works include Compass Points Volumes 1, 2, and 3 as well as The Last Black Skipjack Captain, Reality Check: Brief Biographies of African-Americans on Delmarva, released in 1998 and Men of Color to Arms! Manumitted Slaves and Free Blacks from the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland Who Served in the Civil War, co-authored with David Briddell and They Wore Blue and Their Hearts Were Loyal: The United States Colored Troops of Dorchester County, Maryland.