The American Indian Village at Patuxent River Park replicates an Eastern Woodland Village with various components giving visitors opportunities to explore the history of the Indigenous peoples of Prince George's County, Maryland and the surrounding areas.
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More than 150 life-size wax figures and a slave ship replica. The museum details the African American experience from ancient Africa and slavery to the present. On Maryland's Frederick Douglass Driving Tour.
Nine civil rights demonstrators walked onto I-495 to protest the lack of rental housing for African Americans in the D.C. suburbs. Attorney Jones led a three-day, 64-mile march around the beltway.
This marker at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery honors Elijah Cummings, who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1996-2019 and fought for civil rights and to improve opportunities for African Americans.
Doswell Brooks served as Supervisor of Colored Schools in 1922, and in 1956 was appointed as the first African-American member of the Board of Education. He also served on the Fairmount Heights Town Council and was Mayor from 1955 to 1968.
This mural features John Lewis, an American politician and civil rights leader. Behind his portrait is a depiction of the iconic scene of key activists leading the Selma to Montgomery marches over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.
This marker is on the site of one of the few surviving African-American sandlot baseball fields. Created in 1910, it was home to Oaksville Eagles, a community baseball club that toured playing against Negro League teams before desegregation.
The center showcases the contributions of African Americans to the fine arts with events and exhibits. Galleries highlight Eubie Blake’s legacy and feature other jazz greats born or raised in Baltimore like Billie Holiday and Chick Webb.
Historic site of the first American-born saint. Free museum and 12-minute film. Guided tours of two historic homes, historic cemetery, and Basilica with Saint’s tomb. Part of Maryland's 2020 Year of the Woman.
On the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail. The marker describes the "Buy Where You Can Work” campaign, a boycott of Baltimore stores that refused to hire Black workers that inspired African-American demonstrations in cities across the United States.