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Freetown illustrates principles of self-sufficiency and cooperation. Schools were built here with support from the Rosenwald Fund, land and labor donated by the community, and efforts of the Freetown Community Association.

On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, and segregation ended at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, which once occupied this site, after 10 years of protests and demonstrations.

The Colored Schoolhouse was a one-room school with 6 grades that operated from 1904 to 1939. The schoolhouse has been restored and furnished to its 1904 appearance. Tours and field trips are available that demonstrate segregated education.

The historic Galesville Rosenwald School operated from 1931 through 1956 to educate African-American children. It now houses a community center and hosts exhibits and events. The Hot Sox, an African-American sandlot baseball team, played here.

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.

William Gibbs, principal at Rockville Colored Elementary School, petitioned the Board of Education for equal pay for Black educators. His petition was denied, and Gibbs filed suit. He was represented by Thurgood Marshall and Charles Houston.

Protests in the summer of 1960 by Howard University students, organized as the Nonviolent Action Group, led to the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in 1961. Legal battles over the carousel sit-in continued until 1964.