African American History: Montgomery County Archives Resources

Collections with significant material on African American communities and/or topics in the Montgomery County Archives

From Record Group 6: Public Works and Transportation

• Archaeological Reports from the Inter-County Connector (ICC) Project in Montgomery County, 2011; 2014

From Record Group 15: Boards, Committees and Commissions

• Community Action Committee, 1968-1996
  
  
• Human Relations Commission, 1957-1996
  
  
• Martin Luther King Commemorative Committee on the Future of Montgomery County, 1977-1994

From Record Group 16: Oral Histories [* indicates digitized transcript is linked]

• Abbe, Leslie Morgan (1898-1992), interviewed 1971
  • Rockville Planning Commission, Black Schools, Board of Education, PTA 

• Curtis, Frances Vinson (1915-1998), interviewed 1972
  • Scotland community, AME Zion Church, 

• Jones, Margaret Taylor* (1907-1977), interviewed 1971
  • Montgomery County Schools, Scotland community, principal of Bannuckburn Elementary, Montgomery County Teachers Association

• Mason, Geneva (1899-1980), interviewed 1975
  • Scotland community leader, MoCo Government Committee, school integration 

• Siegel, Joyce B.* (n.d.), interviewed 1972
  • LWV, Scotland community, Housing Authority, Community Action Committee
    
• Talley, Anna L. (1918-1992), interviewed 1977
  • Sugarland community, Mount of Olives Church (founder/pastor), rural life, PTA

From Record Group 17: Personal Papers

• Greene, Alexander, 1952-1986
  
  
• Throckmorton, Edith, 1946-1985

From Record Group 18: Civic Organizations

• Giles-Johnson Defense Committee, 1963-1967 
  
  
• League of Women Voters, 1941-1990, 1925-2010 (specifically, Series I / Subseries 4: Papers of Austin Kiplinger)
• Lincoln Park Partners Project, 2000-2001
  
  
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Montgomery County, Maryland Branch, 1958-1959; 1987-1988