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Black History Month #1- Sharing a Fact Each Day

Megan Searing Young

Laborers at the Greenbelt construction site, 1936 by Carl Mydans. Library of Congress.

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 Instagram pages. We hope you’ll follow along!


Did you know that Greenbelt began as segregated community? It was built by both Black and white relief workers but only white families would be accepted. It would remain segregated for several decades.


To learn more about the Black families who integrated Greenbelt, save the date of February 25th for a program about this topic. Update: registration is now open. Click here.


 
 
 

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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

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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15 Crescent Road

Greenbelt, Maryland 20770

301-507-6582 

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Community Pledge

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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