Highland Beach Chesapeake Bay Maryland''s First African American Town Leather

Highland Beach Chesapeake Bay Maryland''s First African American Incorporated Town 125th Anniversary Edition 1989-2018Faux Leather Bound with Slip Cover
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Highland Beach was founded in the summer of
1893 by Charles Douglass and his wife Laura after they had been turned away
from a restaurant at the nearby Bay Ridge resort because of their race. They
brought a 40-acre tract on the Chesapeake Bay with 500 feet of beachfront and
turned it into a summer enclave for their family and friends. It became a
gathering place for upper-class blacks, including many of the well known
personages of the age. Among the residents and guests were Paul Robeson, D.C.
municipal court judge Robert Terrell and his wife Dr. Mary Church Terrell,
Booker T. Washington, Robert Weaver, Alex Haley, W.E.B. DuBois, and poets
Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Charles Douglass'' father, the famous
abolitionist Frederick Douglass, visited and would have become a resident had
he not died before the