Aline Black was a teacher in Norfolk, VA and petitioned the school board for equal pay for black teachers. Although Thurgood Marshall took her case, Ms. Black lost her job. She began a PhD at NYU; the 1940 census has her listed as living in Harlem…
Telephone interview with Elwood Gross. Elwood Gross lived in Lakeland from 1933 to the 1970s. He served on the Lakeland Project Area Committee (PAC), which consisted of Lakeland residents who approved the earliest version of urban renewal plans.…
This interview was conducted with Gela Sandage Brooks on April 27, 2011. Ms. Brooks discusses her time as a student at Lakeland School, Greenbelt Jr. High, High Point High School, and the University of Maryland. Ms. Brooks also talks about being a…