Wilson, Frank Harold
Footsteps from North Brentwood: From Reconstruction to the Post-World War II Years
n.pub., n.pl., 1998[?]
Call no.: 1076
Accession no.: L990111
Location: 10-2-2
Subject: North Brentwood - Prince George's County - Maryland - History; Prince George's County - Maryland
Library no.: 13232
ALSO SEE
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/99schol.htm
FRANK H. WILSON, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
"Footsteps from North Brentwood: A Sociologist
Reconstructs the Life & Heritage of His
Hometown"
Professor Wilson will discuss his recent documentary
research on North Brentwood,
Maryland, the first African American incorporated town
in Prince George's County and in
the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Through
photographs, interviews, artifacts, and
archival evidence, Prof. Wilson's work demonstrates how
generations of ex-slaves and
descendants of slaves organized their lives and built
this suburban community from the
1890s through the post-WWII years. He published the
results of his research in "Footsteps
from North Brentwood: From Reconstruction to the
Post-World War II Years." Having been
raised in North Brentwood himself, Prof. Wilson's
history highlights the importance of
family and extended family in shaping the town. The
inter-family relationships of North
Brentwood are rooted in the shared experiences of their
ancestors--black men who fought in
the Maryland Colored Regiments during the Civil War;
shared dreams and interests of
owning land and homes; shared memories of civic
participation and association to improve
community life. These family relationships were further
strengthened by the boundaries of
racial discrimination and segregation, difficult times,
and poverty.
Prof. Wilson's history forms part of the Footsteps From
North Brentwood Oral History
Project funded by the Maryland Humanities Council
through a grant from the NEH. His
work was published in conjunction with a 1997 traveling
exhibit at the Anacostia Museum
of the Smithsonian Institution, the North Brentwood
Community Center, and the Lowe
House of Delegates in Annapolis.
Also SEE
http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/auth98.htm
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Golda Meir Library
Wilson, Frank Harold [Sociology].
Footsteps From North Brentwood.
Washington, D.C.: Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.
Call Number: (UWM) F 189.N67x W55 1997
SEE
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