Esther McCready (1931-2020)
MSA SC 3520-14290
Sources:
Newspaper articles -
“South’s Racial School Pact is Challenged.” The Washington
Post, 15 March 1950.
"Negro Wins State Court Study Test." The Baltimore Sun, 15 April 1950.
"Open U. of Md." The
Afro-American, 22 April 1950.
“School Equality.” Editorial. The Washington Post,
11 May 1950.
Folkenflik, David and Lyle Denniston. “Blacks-only Aid Program
Dies After Justices Refuse Review.” The Baltimore Sun, 23
May 1995.
Bowler, Mike. “McCready was a Genuine First.” The
Baltimore Sun, 7 February 1996.
Kaplan, Anna. “Sharing Tale of Triumph from ‘Trying Time’;
First
Black Student at UM Nursing Marks Anniversary.” The Baltimore
Sun, 18 March 2003.
Dosey, Gary. "Telling History; Mining Oral Traditions to Fill the
New
African-American History Museum.” The Baltimore Sun, 4
April 2004.
"McCready fought for the right to be trained as a nurse." The Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2005.
"A Maryland pioneer." The Baltimore Sun, 20 April 2009.
Archival sources -
McCready v. Byrd case materials
Secondary sources -
Mills, Barbara. “Got My Mind Set on Freedom:” Maryland’s
Story of Black and White Activism. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books,
2002.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the
Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Scribner,
2001.
Smith, Pamela. “Our Children’s Burden: The Many-Headed
Hydra of the Educational Disenfranchisement of Black Children.” Howard
Law Journal 42 (1999).
Hine, Darlene C. ed. Black Women in America: An Historical
Encyclopedia. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Publications, 1993.
Salem, Dorothy C. ed. African American Women: A Biographical
Dictionary. New York: Garland Press, 1993.
Kujovich, Gil. “Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and the
Black Public College: The Era of Separate But Equal.” Minnesota
Law Review 72 (1987).
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