Collection

Manton & Dalphine Chapman 8005 48th Ave. South 60 Feet of Lot 8 in Block 12 Parcel 11 Block 24

Block 44 Lot 11

8115 54th Ave block 44, lot 5 parcel 19-5

Navahoe Street

4910 Navahoe St Leonard J. Smith and Mamie E. McCorkle Block 16 E 55" of Lot 7 Urban Renewal Parcel 20-4 Value Sheet

55th Avenue Block 44 Lots 7,8,9,10 & 11 Leon E. & Marionette T. Kelley

Lot 5

Leon & Marionette Kelley 55th Ave no house # Block 44 Lot 11

4702 Lakeland Rd Project Parcel 23-8' Marie Douglas

Western Lakeland at Navahoe Street and 48th Avenue

Berwyn House Rd

The original birth certificate.

The home of Charles Hamlett and his second wife, Nettie Edwards Hamlett. It was located on Cleveland Avenue near Lake Artemesia. Originally a single home, over time more units were added for use as rentals.

5400 Cleveland Ave. Block 45 Lot 6 Parcel 18-3 Paul & Delores Parker

Lot 10 Block 44

Block 44 Lots 7, 8, 9 ,10 and 11

A jump shot from George Randall collection but no visible sight of him

Darkened photo of Parkdale game. Randall playing in-game with other Parkdale teammates.

A photo of a basketball game that George Randall played in. This is a game against Mt St. Mary and another college on the teams roster

Mount St. Mary's basketball game schedule, with the scores and whether the team lost or won the game.

There are many different game reports on Mt St. Mary University games. Also, the clipping at the very bottom is about Parkdale's track team.

George Randall is playing a college game. He went to Mt. St. Mary's.

George Randall is playing a college game. He plays for Mt. St. Mary in this photo and is playing against another college.

Black Explosion January 24, 1974 Page 5 University of Maryland employee relations officer and black faculty and staff association member, Charles Carroll was elected to College Park's city council. He is the sole Black voting member of that body. Mr. Carroll is in favor of urban renewal but said it must be a benefit to the community. He is concerned about elderly members of the community having to move out and being faced with hardship cased by higher rents. He would like to see more Blacks gaining administrative work with the city. To date the only Black employees are refuse collectors. Other concerns expressed were traffic noise and the concept of lowering the age for holding of municpal elected office from 25 to 21. To be an elected city official an individual must also be a resident for at least 90 days and own property.

Block 44 Lots 7,8,9,10,11 55th Ave

In the late 1960s, it became clear that the fifty-year old building housing Lakeland Elementary school no longer met the needs of the community's children. Community leaders fought long and hard to have a new school built in Lakeland. This commitment was maintained despite the school board’s selection of a site occupied by several houses. Even some of those who would be losing their homes worked actively for a new school in Lakeland. They were triumphant, and Paint Branch Elementary School opened in 1972 as an integrated elementary school with students from Lakeland and neighboring majority-white communities. Shown above is Miss Norris’s pre-kindergarten class in 1974-75. Today, the school serves more than 350 students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade.

Appraisal Report - 4810 Lakeland Rd, west half of Lot 13 block 12 Urban Renewal Parcel 18 Block 24

East side of Winnepeg from in front of lot 6, block 35 looking south

8104 48th Ave Plaza Properties

8106 48th Ave Melbourne Pl and 48th Avenue

8115 54th Avenue

Informal portrait

5415 Detroit Avenue Urban Renewal Parcel 19-1 & 2 Block 44, Lots 1,12,13,14, 15 Carter-Weygandt Engineering inc

Lakeland Road

4903 Navahoe Street East part of Lot 3 Block 12 Urban Renewal Lot 3 Block 24 Mary E. Stewart 1/3, Sam R. Stewart 1/3; Earl Conway 1/6, Raymond Conway 1/6

Honoring Hattie Sandidge

Possibly 4827 Navahoe Street Mary E. Stewart, Samuel R., Earl & Raymond Conway

Behind Town Hall liquors

4803 Navahoe

4702 Lakeland Rd Lot 10 Block 19, Urban Renewal Parcel 8 Block 23

4812 Lakeland-Sherman & Saxoline Campbell

A fourth-generation Lakelander and former Lakeland Civic Association president, Maxine Gross was elected to the College Park City Council in 1989 and served until 1997. Gross graduated from the University of Maryland. Her graduation meant a great deal to her family, as family members for three generations had worked for the university but had been barred from attending because of segregation.

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 Lakeland Road circa 1968.

Once the City of College Park adopted the Urban Renewal plan in 1970, two thirds of the community's households--mostly in the eastern and western sections of Lakeland--had to vacate their houses. After families had moved out, several of Lakeland’s homes were burned as training exercises for the local fire department. Here is a photo of one such incident.

Block 45 lots 1-5

On this lot for many years was an electric power substation. After its removal the Smith family relocated to a house moved to this site. Their new home had been owned by the Pitts family. That house had been located in the western area of Lakeland. Urban renewal records show there were other homes which were candidates for being moved. It is unclear why other houses were not moved.

Calvert F. & Mary A. Long 8141 Baltimore Blvd, College Park MD