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At College Park City Council chamber. Among those present is Gregory Lomax, standing second from the left.

Greenbelt Lion's Club Dervey Lomax is pictured and was a member of the group

Embry AME Church

Looking Northeast

Left home of Willie and Arlener Laney, Right Home of Elwood Harrison and Wilmer Sydnor Gross on Pierce Avenue. For many years the sign at one end of the street was marked Pierce Avenue and the other end of the street the sign read Pierce Street. An urban renewal listing of addresses shows a mixture of designations.

Built in 1926 as Lakeland Elementary School, this building in 1958 became home to Little New Zion Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas. A portion of the building contained an apartment, where the family of James and Anna Smith lived for years. Both the family and congregation were displaced with the coming of urban renewal. The congregation, now Greater New Zion Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas, is located in West Lanham, Maryland. (Courtesy of Thelma Lomax)

Images from swearing in of Mayor Owens and Council December 8, 1987 and from presentation honoring Jack Callahan in January 1980

James Henry Gray, born 1865 in Calvert County, MD, moved to Lakeland in the late 1890s after the birth of his eldest son. He was noted for his pious attitude - his granddaughter recalls him making the family pray before going to church on Sundays!

Hattie "Dora" Campbell Chappell

Benjamin Robert Hicks was employed for years on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He was a member of a crew that built, maintained and repaired hundreds of miles of railroad track. He is pictured in the middle, the tall man in the dark jacket. Several of Lakeland's earliest African American settlers came to the community through their work on the railroad, including Benjamin Hicks, John C. Johnson, and Joseph Brooks.

George (Pete) Walls and Omega Giles Crump

Members of the congregation of the First Baptist Church of College Park gathered for this photograph in June 2006, during the celebration of their 116th anniversary. Their pastor, Rev. Stephen L. Wright Sr., is second from the left in the second row. His wife, Linda, is to his left.

For most of a century, only African-American students attended school in Lakeland. In 1956, two years after the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional, the Prince George’s County Board of Education enacted a plan to impede the integration of schools. The first white students did not attend Lakeland Elementary School until the late 1960s. They were few in number. The board of education resisted desegregation for decades, despite the struggle by Lakeland residents and others for integrated schools and public facilities. Nevertheless, desegregation progressed intermittently until court-ordered programs began in 1973. Pictured in this photograph taken during the 1966-67 school year is Lakeland Elementary School’s fourth and fifth grade class with Mr. Ford.

Weygandt property

55th Avenue Block 44 lots 7-11 Leon & Marionette Kelley

As a young woman, Margaret Gross Gray moved to New York City and married; yet she still maintained ties to Lakeland. Her visits were frequent and her children and grandchildren came for long holidays “in the country.” One visit with Gray’s grandmother, Harriet Hughes of Lakeland Road (seated, center), is captured here circa 1942. From left to right, standing, are Beatrice Hughes Thomas, Cora Gross, George Gray, and Margaret Gross Gray. Seated on the ground are Jean Gray (right) and Amelia Wilson (left). (Courtesy of the Gross family.)

In preparation for Lakeland Digital Archive's first collections event. Class was lead by Dr. Edvard Thorsadt Thorsett

During City celebration

Students walk into Paint Branch Elementary, the result of lobbying for an integrated elementary school by Lakelanders and other community members.

Communion Stewardess with pastor, Rev. Dessie Carter. The are front far left to right Dessie Carter, Julia Mack Carroll, unknown, Deloris Parker rear left to right are unknown, unknown, Christine Gray and Agnes Randall.

For event celebrating Joanne Braxton's donation to Hyattsville Branch Library of her new book.