North Brentwood, Maryland’s First Majority-Black Town, Celebrates 100th Year

Credit: Town of North Brentwood, Maryland via Facebook NORTH BRENTWOOD, Md. – North Brentwood, a town founded with an all-Black population in 1924, just celebrated the town’s 100th anniversary on June 12. North Brentwood was originally built on plots of land that Black veterans of the Civil War purchased from their commander, Captain Wallace Bartlett,…