Heritage Days Walking Tour – Emancipation to Integration
The Historic Red Brick Courthouse Saturday, June 24, 2017 Tours at 1 pm at 3 pm Free! Reserve your space at Eventbrite! Missed our Spring series? This walking tour will visit significant sites on the journey towards educational equality in Montgomery County. We’ll recount the efforts of the local African-American community to establish a school […]
Emancipation to Integration Series: RSVP today!
This spring, Peerless Rockville celebrates the fight for educational equality in Rockville with a multi-part series. Join us as we highlight the efforts of the local African-American community to secure quality educational opportunities for their children after emancipation, through the challenges of separate and unequal segregated schools, and the experiences of desegregation following Brown vs. […]
Emancipation to Integration Kick-Off at Rockville Memorial Library
This spring, Peerless Rockville celebrates the fight for educational equality in Rockville with a multi-part series. Join us as we highlight the efforts of the local African-American community to secure quality educational opportunities for their children from after emancipation, through the challenges of separate and unequal segregated schools, and the experiences of desegregation following Brown […]
Peerless Rockville Mourns Sharyn R. Duffin, Local Historian, Preservationist, Advocate, and Longtime Peerless Volunteer
Sharyn R. Duffin was a passionate and determined historian who did invaluable work on African-American history throughout Montgomery County, with a special focus on her Rockville neighborhood of Lincoln Park. A descendant of some of the original founders of this historically Black community, Sharyn was dedicated to investigating and sharing their rich but underrepresented history. […]
In Memory of Nina H. Clarke
Peerless Rockville mourns the loss of Nina H. Clarke, Montgomery County Educator, Historian, and Advocate. Nina Honemond Clarke was a respected and beloved veteran of the Montgomery County Public Schools. Granddaughter of enslaved families and a native of Montgomery County, she came through a school system where black students could not attend beyond seventh grade. […]
African-American Education in Rockville
Sharyn R. Duffin’s research on African-American Education in Rockville, part of our Emancipation to Integration Series in 2017. Realizing a Dream: Providing Opportunity Through Education
Thurgood Marshall and William Gibbs: Civil Rights in Rockville
Part of Peerless Rockville’s Emancipation to Integration series – come hear the story of an early Civil Rights victory in Rockville. Saturday, April 1, 2017 10:00 am Grand Courtroom of the Historic Red Brick Courthouse In 1937, renowned Civil Rights attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall represented William Gibbs, a Rockville principal suing […]
