Historic Black Community of Linden/Lyttonsville: Urban Renewal

In this short video, Paulette Dawes talks with MoCoLMP about her family history and urban renewal in the historic Black community of Linden/Lyttonsville, in what is now Silver Spring. This community was founded in 1853 by Samuel Litton, a free Black man. It grew to about 60 households by the 1930s.

For more background on Lyttonsville, you can watch this PBS documentary.

Paulette Dawes talks about the historic Black community of Linden/Lyttonsville, in Silver Spring, MD