Baltimore, Saturday, March 10, 2007
Yesterday I crossed the Mason-Dixon line. Jim Crow is very far. After forty, Maryland has a museum devoted to history and African American culture, the Reginald F. Lewis museum, named after a black lawyer and philanthropist born in Baltimore, who founded the first law firm Afro-American on Wall Street. Baltimore, the city where Billie Holiday spent the first years of his life. Pennsylvania Avenue, the main artery black under Jim Crow, which housed the jazz clubs, the center of life at the time, is now the heart of a rotten suburb where few people are willing to put their feet. "Honey, you do not want to go there," said a guardian of the museum. "Honey, you should not set foot there. "
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