Black History Month #17 - Baseball
In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, in a segregated Prince George’s County, local Black communities developed and supported their own...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
- Feb 19, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #16 - Melba L.C. Moore
We are watching the inspirational journey of the Mars rover today. Good luck, Perseverance! Black History at our neighbor, NASA Goddard,...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #15 - African Americans and the Great Depression
Watch this short film about African Americans and the Great Depression. To learn more about why FDR didn't support anti-lynching laws,...
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Stephen Oetken
- Feb 14, 2021
- 2 min
Black History Month #14 - Greenbelt Women Visit Nannie Helen Burroughs' Cooperative in D.C.
Did you know that there was a thriving black cooperative movement in Washington DC in the late 1930’s? The woman at the center of this...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 14, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #13 - National Public Housing Museum
Did you know there is a National Public Housing Museum based in Chicago? We've followed the progress of this fascinating organization for...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #12 - Desegregating Greenbelt
Did you know that Greenbelt began as a segregated community? Despite the fact that it was built by both Black and white relief workers,...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Black History Month #11 - Jacob Lawrence and the WPA
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is often described as the most widely acclaimed Black artist of the 20th century. Did you know that he...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #10 - The WPA and the Collection of Narratives of Enslaved People
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his WPA (Works Progress Administration) commissioned the Federal Writer’s Project to interview...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #9
Here are another couple of photos from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Collection. These were taken by Arthur...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
Black History Month #8 - 1940 Census Shows 3 Black Families in Greenbelt Area
Joseph Arnold in his book, The New Deal in the Suburbs: A History of the Greenbelt Town Program 1935-1954, writes that there were several...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #7 - FSA Photographs of Black Workers
This photo of Black workers at the Greenbelt construction site is one of many taken by the photographers hired by the Resettlement...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #6 - Architect Paul R. Williams
Paul R. Williams was the other Black architect who worked on Langston Terrace Dwellings with Hilyard Robinson. He was born and was...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
Black History Month #5: Langston Terrace Dwellings and Hilyard Robinson
Langston Terrace Dwellings, which opened in 1938, was the DC area’s first federally funded public housing program and was built for low...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 5, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #4 - Langston Terrace Dwellings
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! Greenbelt planners realized probably c. 1936 that...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 3, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #3 - More About Rossville
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month - we hope you’ll follow along! The map above was discovered by Ben Fischler at...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 3, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #2 - Rossville Rural Development
We’re doing a fact a day in honor of Black History Month! We hope you’ll follow along! Early plans for Greenbelt included an area to be...
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Megan Searing Young
- Feb 3, 2021
- 1 min
Black History Month #1- Sharing a Fact Each Day
For Black History Month we’ll be posting a fact each day here on our blog. We'll put the same content on the Museum's Facebook and...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
What Are You Doing New Year's, New Year's Eve?*
If it is 1948 and you are living in the New Deal planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, you’ve got some options. Almost every New...
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Megan Searing Young
- Dec 16, 2020
- 4 min
Exploring Some of Greenbelt's Holiday Traditions
The holiday season in Greenbelt has always been a festive time, from when the first residents arrived in the experimental town in 1937 in...
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Sheila Maffay-Tuthill and Megan Searing Young
- Nov 25, 2020
- 3 min
Celebrating Thanksgiving in Greenbelt
Please note: We at the Greenbelt Museum recognize the complicated legacy of the Thanksgiving holiday as it relates to Indigenous peoples...
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