Join Tina Clarke, Montgomery County community activist on February 23rd at 7:00 p.m. when she discusses the history of the Black community of Jerusalem in Poolesville and her early years growing up in the Clarke family there. She will visit the significance that religion, family, housing, social life, education, and transportation played in the development of the community.
Presenter Short Bio:
Christine Clarke is a sixth generation Marylander and Montgomery County native. Her family, the Clarkes of Poolesville, is regarded as one of the first black families who fought for civil rights in Montgomery County a century ago.
She has lived through integration and spent her whole life as a community activist fighting for equality. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work including the Living Legend Award in 2017, and she was inducted into the County’s Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2006.
Ms. Clarke, along with other members of the African American community, is working on a national project to create designs for historic site designation and recognition.
For more than thirty years, Ms. Clarke was a County Government employee. She spent a total of 16 years serving as the County’s African American Liaison Officer.
She still substitutes, working with special needs students at South Lake Elementary School in Gaithersburg.