Type: Photopage 35

8104 48 th Avenue

Mayor St. Clair Reeves with Dervey Lomax seated second from left

Event honoring Pauline Gray and Arthur Brooks

At Weems home on Pierce Ave. Dianne Weems and Donald Weems were the teens of the household

Drawing of building

on grounds of First Baptist Church

Earlene Williams in Lakeland Road at age 15

Home parties were an important part of the Lakeland social scene. In this circa 1964 photograph, Lakelander Ernest Brown, left, a former member of the Ink Spots, the popular vocal group of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and saxophonist Samuel Hollomand treat guests to a jam session. The party took place in the recreation room of the James Weems family.

54th Avenue

high-rise apartment building

Celebration for James Henry Gray at his home on 54th Avenue

School girls, from left to right, (first row) Pamela Sharps, Pearl Lee Campbell; (second row) Mary Ann Campbell, and Pamela Randall wave their Fairmont Heights Hornets pennant as they prepare to leave Lakeland to support their team during the school’s 1960 homecoming game. Lakeland High School was replaced by Fairmont Heights Junior-Senior High School in 1950. The new school served the African-American students from widely scattered areas of Prince George's County. As a result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the school board abandoned its earlier, race-based school assignment plan and instituted a system based on residential boundaries. At the time, housing in Prince George’s County was segregated. African Americans resided in single-race communities, many out of custom and by choice, and others due to housing discrimination. The result of the new boundaries plan was a school system with mostly single-race schools. There was a policy, however, that allowed students to seek assignment to other schools. Few sought that option. In the 1960s, Lakeland students were assigned to the closer, predominantly-white Northwestern High School in Hyattsville and High Point High School in Beltsville.

Silver track and field medal awarded to Lakelander, Carl Cager

Hyattsville Branch, Prince George's County Public Library Presentation by Lakelander, Joanne Braxton co sponsored with LCHP

Rev. R.H. Baddy rear second from left and members of the Embry AME Church congregation

owner Telma Fulcher ,Report reads in part" per ap tenent in 33 yrs pays $100 mo as of 1/76" 5017 Lakeland Rd UR Parcel 15-3

Located at Baltimore Avenue 8141 Baltimore Avenue. For most of the motel's history it did not serve African American guests.

City of College Park Public Works

Principal Edgar A. Smith is pictured here with the 1938 senior class of Lakeland High School. Smith was appointed principal of Lakeland High School when the school opened in 1928. He held the position until 1966, through its transition to a junior high and later to an elementary school. During much of this period, he also served as a classroom teacher. Even with these responsibilities, Smith completed his master’s degree at Temple University. Students are first row Milton Mack, unknown King, unknown Ross, Willie Randall 2nd row unknown, Oscar Owens, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Principal Edger Smith back row James Marshall, unknown, Hamp Conway, unknown, Gasson Bradford

4810 Lakeland--George & Jeanette Brooks

standing left to right Pearl Lee Edwards, Monroe Dennis, Seated Janet Gillens, Elizabeth Hicks Campbell Adams and Charlotte King

The "M" in the traffic circle on Campus Drive has been a landmark on the University of Maryland campus since the 1970s. Its recognition factor is second only to the University Chapel. James Adams of Lakeland was a member of the university's grounds crew for 37 years and was instrumental in the installation of this planting.

In 1960, Dervey and Thelma Lomax sought to enroll their son Gregory in a nearby, predominantly white elementary school, but the school board denied his admission. After a second denial a year later, the Lomax family, with the assistance of the local NAACP, appealed to the state board of education. The local board settled by admitting Gregory as a second-grader to the predominantly white College Park Elementary School. The following year he was joined at school by his younger brother Elston and a few other young Lakelanders. Gregory Lomax is shown as an elementary school student.

1946-47 School year picture

Class from Paint Branch Elementary School 1977-78 school year. Their teacher is Mrs. Lyon

Lakeland's original one-room school building remained in use until 1917, when it was replaced by a two-classroom structure. This photograph shows students at the school with one of their teachers, George G. Waters, circa 1915.

Lakeland Day

During Concert at University of Maryland's Memorial Chapel. Event was a program of Lakeland Community Heritage Project

Rev. Jessie Williams and unknown group

College Park Airport, College Park, University of Maryland and Berwyn

Event at College Park Community Center

Hyattsville Branch of Prince George's County Memorial Library

Basketball team photo with James Gray kneeling on the left.