Abstract Harry A. Cole (1921-1999) was a lawyer and jurist from Baltimore, Maryland. He was the first African-American ever elected to the Maryland Senate and the first African-American to serve on the Maryland Court of Appeals. In this oral history interview, Cole discusses the 1942 march on Annapolis and his speech before the House of Delegates; Lillie May Carroll Jackson's support of his campaign for the State Senate; Governor Theodore R. McKeldin as a political opportunist; and a comparison with...