U.S. Supreme Court’s Plessy Vs. Ferguson Decision Codifies Segregation, Confining Blacks to All-Black Communities

U.S. Census Records 24 Households and 102 People, All Black, Living in River Road Community

Land Records Show That Two, 2-Acre Plots of Land Were Sold to Formerly Enslaved Buyers, John Burley and Nelson Wood

Newly Freed African Americans Purchase Plots of Land in Maryland’s River Road Community Near Washington D.C.

President Abraham Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation