We hope you'll join us for one of our favorite annual events - Retro Town Fair! On Sunday, September 5 of Labor Day Weekend, we invite...

On July 15, the Museum hosted a virtual event exploring Greenbelt, Maryland's Pride movement. We interviewed a founder of GreenBeLT...

When the federal government built defense housing at the planned community of Greenbelt, Maryland, it ended up with a town divided into...

Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and nineteenth, is a holiday that celebrates freedom from slavery in the United States. Many...

On June 6, the Greenbelt Museum hosted a virtual panel talk that explored how the New Deal transformed the greater Washington area...

Just a few miles down the road from Greenbelt at the University of Maryland in College Park, there exists a rich history of connection...

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI). As award-winning Asian American educator Elizabeth Kleinroc stated in an article she...

Earth Day’s origins can be traced back to peace activist John McConnell. Attending a UNESCO conference in San Francisco in 1969, he...

In the November 16, 1939, issue of the Greenbelt Cooperator, a short editorial statement appeared (see above). The statement was...

This blog post was updated with corrected information 10/17/22. Did you know that our modern-day ironing board was invented by a Black...

Did you have a chance to see Regina Shaw Small's Black History Artifacts Pop-up Museum that was on display in the Greenbelt Community...

Desegregating Greenbelt: Family Histories of the Community's First Black Residents is a Black History Month program offered by the...

In the 1930s, '40s and '50s, in a segregated Prince George’s County, local Black communities developed and supported their own...

We are watching the inspirational journey of the Mars rover today. Good luck, Perseverance! Black History at our neighbor, NASA Goddard,...

Watch this short film about African Americans and the Great Depression. To learn more about why FDR didn't support anti-lynching laws,...

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...

Did you know there is a National Public Housing Museum based in Chicago? We've followed the progress of this fascinating organization for...

Did you know that Greenbelt began as a segregated community? Despite the fact that it was built by both Black and white relief workers,...

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is often described as the most widely acclaimed Black artist of the 20th century. Did you know that he...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his WPA (Works Progress Administration) commissioned the Federal Writer’s Project to interview...