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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...
Stephen Oetken
Feb 14, 20212 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 14, 20211 min read
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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,...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 12, 20212 min read
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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...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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Black History Month #9
Here are another couple of photos from the Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration Collection. These were taken by Arthur...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 12, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 8, 20212 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 5, 20212 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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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...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Dec 31, 20203 min read
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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...
Megan Searing Young
Dec 16, 20204 min read
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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...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill and Megan Searing Young
Nov 25, 20203 min read
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Halloween From the Start
Since the first residents of Greenbelt were moving in just a little before Halloween, and the new town’s newspaper, The Cooperator,...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Oct 21, 20203 min read
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Fala, President Roosevelt’s Beloved Dog
In accord with Greenbelt’s deep connection with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and keen interest in canines too, here is brief...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Oct 1, 20202 min read
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Summer in Greenbelt
In a small community surrounded by trees and bejeweled with a lake, a swimming pool, picnic areas, playgrounds, tennis courts, ball...
Sheila Maffay-Tuthill
Aug 28, 20203 min read
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