"Weiler has succeeded in placing Baldwin in New England’s civil rights activist circles where she belongs."—American Historical Review
"This well-written biography of an intriguing black educator is strong on narrative, recovering Baldwin's life from obscurity with sound scholarship."—Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, author of Making Black History: The Color Line, Culture, and Race in the Age of Jim Crow
"I learned a great deal from Maria Baldwin's Worlds about the self-organization of the black community in the North over a crucial but often neglected half century, and found it thoroughly readable as well as informative."—Charles Leslie Glenn Jr., author of The Myth of the Common School
"Weiler's biography of Baldwin is an excellent book that fills a significant gap in the literature on black women educators in New England."—History of Education Quarterly
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