The first residents move into Greenbelt, the largest and best known of the New Deal’s federally-funded “greenbelt towns.” Greenbelt becomes an important model for other planned communities and America’s move to the suburbs. The new community initially has segregated housing in Jim Crow America.
Barbara Mikulski enters public office
Barbara Mikulski, Baltimore social worker, is elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976, then to the Senate in 1986, becoming longest-serving female member of Congress.
