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Wedding of Violetta Sharps (center back) and Billy Jones Pictured are the bride with sisters Melonie left, Pamela to the right and her youngest sister Joy front

At Lakeland Elementary School. A recital for a county recreation department sponsored dance program.

Harry Braxton Sr and two others

Lakelander Yearbook

As schoolgirl

on grounds of First Baptist Church

5022 Lakeland Road

After redevelopment

College Park Community Center on right is State Senator James Rosapepe

Many of the young people in the community used public transportation to travel to the District of Columbia to study piano under David Hines. For several years, the students presented a fundraising recital at Embry A.M.E. Church. This program on June 27, 1957, included, left to right, (first row) Reginald Keys, Rosetta Brooks, Cynthia Hines, Phyllis Smith, DeWana Gray, and Karl Alexander; (second row) Janet Randall, Jacqueline Randall, Barbara Brown, Diane Weems, and Frances Mason.

During event for presentation of new book by Joanne Braxton at Hyattsville Branch Library

Heritage Weekend on the grounds of First Baptist Church of College Park during a song presented by Voices of Embry from Embry AME Church

Addie Duckett and William Greenleaf at Edwards home (Source: master photo log.xls)

Lakeland Elementary School student during the 1945-46 school year

Incoming and Outgoing College Park City Council members

First Baptist Church

Exhibition wall

Children's Bicycle Race during dedication day of Lakeland Park

Pictured with young girl

Navahoe Street at Berwyn House Road and Rhode Island Avenue named in honor of Lakeland Resident

Urban Renewal Authority office was also on property 48th Ave. Berwyn House Rd and 48th Ave

Lakeland High School class of 1950 reunion trip to Wildwood NJ

Lakelander yearbook page

Brother of Elizabeth C. Adams

Lakelander yearbook

James Adams and Maseo Campbell, like many young family men of Lakeland, were members of the community’s baseball team. These two gentlemen, shown in the late 1950s, were both teammates and cousins. The popularity of the games diminished in the 1970s, and Lakeland stopped fielding a team late in that decade. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Hicks Campbell Adams.)

Youth performers

In 1970, Prince George’s County officials reported that only a few of Lakeland’s streets were paved, lighting was inadequate, and home values lagged behind those of neighboring white communities. The report failed to mention contributing influences, such as the disparity in economic prospects and the lack of financing opportunities for residential and commercial properties. African Americans were primarily dependent on unregulated private lenders; bank mortgages were rarely granted. Here are two homes on Pierce Avenue circa 1965. On the left is the home of Willie Laney and his wife Arlene; to the right is the home built by Elwood Gross and his wife Wilmer in 1962. (Courtesy of Thelma Lomax.)

Property at Baltimore Avenue

Celebration for family patriarch James Henry Gray

Assorted images

The Gospel Choir of Embry A.M.E Church was organized by James Edwards, Jr. in the early 1960s. Members of the choir, pictured from left to right, are (first row) Amy Potts, Marie Brown, organist Rosetta Brooks, and Ethel Wilson Brown; (second row) James Edwards, Jr., Willa Mae Smith, Amy Brooks Hart, and Franklin Brown Jr. In the background is Rev. Robert H. Baddy. (Courtesy of Pearl Lee Campbell and James Edwards III.)

4906 Navahoe Street Project Parcel 20-6