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of the NAACP itself. The richness and diversity of racial relations in a border state are justification enough for the focus of this book; the more personal reason is that I have lived in Maryland for more than twenty years. The University of Maryland Law School excluded Thurgood Marshall because of his race; and that institution, where I now teach, was the defendant when Charles Houston, assisted by Marshall, had his first victory in integrating a segregated school. Maryland provides both the personal and academic environment in which I exist, and it is far easier and more convenient to study Maryland in Maryland than to attempt to write a history of another state. IV |