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Black History Month #12 - Desegregating Greenbelt

Feb 12, 2021
1 min read

Did you know that Greenbelt began as a segregated community? Despite the fact that it was built by both Black and white relief workers, only white families would be accepted as residents when it first opened and it would remain segregated for several decades after its founding in 1937. Join the Greenbelt Museum to learn about the community’s first residents of color. Please note this program is a pre-recorded interview with one of the first families of color to move into Greenbelt in the late 1960s. The other family with whom we had hoped to speak is unable to participate because of health issues. We plan to do another interview in the future. Registration is not required, but if you register, you will be sent a link to the recorded interview when it goes live on YouTube at 7pm on February 25th. To register click here.

The Museum is co-sponsoring this event with the Greenbelt Black History and Culture Committee For the full listing of City sponsored events in February, please see below or click here.




 
 
 

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https://casinoonlineit.net came to mind reading this, but the detail that really stuck with me is that Black and white relief workers built Greenbelt together while only white families were allowed to move in. My grandparents talked about similar patterns in their own town, where the people who poured the concrete couldn't buy a house on the street they built, so I'm glad the museum is capturing those first families' voices now. It's a reminder that oral history interviews like this one do quiet, important work that official records often skip right over.

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Important history, carefully told. Greenbelt's desegregation story is a vital part of the town's planned-community legacy, and sharing it during Black History Month matters. Thank you for preserving it. Thanks for sharing, merge fellas

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VISITOR INFORMATION 

Historic House  

 

10B Crescent Rd.

Greenbelt, MD 20770

Open Sundays 

Tours on the 1/2 hour

1pm to 4:30pm

Admission $5

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Exhibition Gallery  

 

Lenore Thomas Straus Exhibit

Greenbelt Community Center

15 Crescent Rd. 

Greenbelt, MD 20770

Open M-Sat 9am-10pm, 

Sundays 10am-7pm

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Greenbelt Museum Office


15 Crescent Road

Greenbelt, Maryland 20770

301-507-6582 

info@greenbeltmuseum.org

Community Pledge

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The strength of Greenbelt is diverse people living together in a spirit of cooperation. We celebrate all people. By sharing together all are enriched. We strive to be a respectful, welcoming community that is open, accessible, safe and fair.

Preserving and sharing the New Deal history of an experimental planned community built by FDR in suburban Maryland in 1937 and still thriving today.

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