"Although several entrepreneurs established newspapers for Baltimore's large anti-bellum free African American community... no issues have survived. ...Founded in 1837, the Baltimore Sun published numerous articles characterizing local, national and international events relating to and impacting people of color. Beginning with the Reconstruction year of 1870, Mrs. Pagan has performed the yeoman's task of scouring the newspaper for all such accounts...

Most people probably don't give a second thought to street names or what they are named for. We use them every day as a way to get us from point A to point B. But little do we know that Baltimore street names date back to the colonial days of Baltimore Town and preserve and the names of the royals, warriors, politicians and entrepreneurs who played important roles in the development of this city and this country. This book tells the stories of these...