The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City

Antero Pietila

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Antero Pietila shows how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the dominating buildings in Baltimore’s downtown to the role that Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored “Negro Removal” causing the city’s existing racial patchwork.

ISBN 9781538116036
List price $28.00
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year of publication 2018
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