Greenbelt Museum

2010 Lecture Series

Learn about Lakeland, the historical African American community of College Park formed around 1890 on the doorstep of the Maryland Agricultural College, now University of Maryland. The story of Lakeland is the tale of a community that was established and flourished in a segregated society and developed its own institutions and traditions, including the area’s only high school for African Americans, built in 1928. Members of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project will discuss both the history of Lakeland and the experience of publishing a community history through Arcadia Press.

The Greenbelt Museum sponsors a free  bi-monthly lecture series in the Greenbelt Community Center. Topics focus on the period of the Great Depression to World War II and deal with history, material culture, social studies and art history.

Third Tuesday Every Other Month 7:30pm Multipurpose Room, 201 Greenbelt Community Center 15 Crescent Road Greenbelt MD 20770

Lakeland: African Americans  in College Park

Lecture and Booksigning

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:30pm      

Contact person: Megan Searing Young

301.507.6582

museum@greenbeltmd.gov