Lakeland

African Americans in College Park

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• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780738567594
• eBook ISBN: 9781439622742
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Lakeland, the historical African American community of College Park, was formed around 1890 on the doorstep of the Maryland Agricultural College, now the University of Maryland, in northern Prince Georges County. Located less than 10 miles from Washington, D.C., the community began when the area was largely rural and overwhelmingly populated by European Americans. Lakeland is one of several small, African American communities along the U.S. Route 1 corridor between Washington, D.C., and Laurel, Maryland. With Lakelands central geographic location and easy access to train and trolley transportation, it became a natural gathering place for African American social and recreational activities, and it thrived until its self-contained uniqueness was undermined by the federal governments urban renewal program and by societal change. 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 areas only high school for African Americans, built in 1928.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - BUILDING A COMMUNITY
• Two - THE KEY TO THE DREAM
• Three - SUSTAINED BY FAITH
• Four - BY THEIR TOIL
• Five - SERVICE TO THE NATION
• Six - SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
• Seven - COMMUNITY LIFE
• Eight - A DREAM DENIED
• Nine - THE DREAM RENEWED