Acknowledgements and Bibliography

Acknowledgements

I am deeply grateful for the assistance and guidance provided by the following: First and foremost our "collaborator", Jill Craig and the Western Maryland Historical Library, Angela, Natasha, and Josinda Feldstein, Bonita Austin, JoJacqueline Cooper and the McKendree United Methodist Church of Potomac Park, Dan Whetzel, Vicki Day, Leontyne Peck, Jan Alderton and the Cumberland Times-News, Tawnia Austin and the Carver Community Center Museum, Stephanie Gates, John Gates, Dolores Gates-Thomas, Walter C. Crawford, Rodney and Vivian Keys, Jacqueline Harper, Russell Conway, Juanita Cage Lewis, the late Mary Louise Jones, the late Ruth E. Franklin, Patrick and Isabelle Amoroso, David Cotton, the late Earle L. Bracey, Kevin Woods, Margie Eirich, John A. Grant and the Garrett County Historical Society, Francis Zumbrun, Pastor Alfred Deas, Jr. and the Cumberland Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Butch Haggard, John "Perkey" Yates, Jon Loff, Walter Younger, Reverend Edward Chapman, Darla Copeland, James N. Goldsworthy, Carmen B. Jackson, Janet Powell, Brooke Davis, George "Bump" Franklin, MaryJo Price, Pansye Atkinson, the Allegany County Museum, Reverend John B. McIntyre, Patsy Koontz and the NewPage Corporation, Glenn Tolbert, Betty Van Newkirk, the Allegany County Board of Education, Ivan Freedman of the Anne Arundel County Public Library and Kathy McKenney.

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Reflections of the Silver Screen, A History of Allegany County Movie Theaters, by the Allegany High School Social Studies Department, Cumberland, MD : Allegany High School, 2000

The "Remembering Carver" Facebook page has dozens of newspaper articles and excerpts not only focusing upon Carver but other Cumberland and region-wide African-American activities, events, institutions, and people as well. Schools, parades, the military and more are depicted. As noted on Facebook much of the information and depictions come from the community, and as noted below in the Facebook description the community is encouraged to participate. As of this date, October 2015, many of the images are from or duplicated on this Allegany County African-American history website where additional background information on the subject matter is available. The link to the "Remembering Carver" Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/remembercarver

Ruth E. Franklin Testimonial Dinner booklet, June 22, 1990

The Capital (newspaper), Annapolis, Maryland, March 12, 1982

The Capital (newspaper), Annapolis, Maryland, March 13, 1982

The Church On The Fort - 150 Years of Emmanuel Parish, by Rev. H. Maunsell Richardson, Commercial Press Printing Company, 1976.

The Glades Star, Volume I, 1941 - 1949

The Maryland Churchman, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, November 1946

The SAGE Handbook of African-American Education, by Linda C. Tillman, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. 2009.

Twenty Years with Has-Beens Inc, 1969-1989, A Pictorial and Newspaper History of Area Boxing, Compiled and Edited by Robert Shrout and Albert L. Feldstein

Welcome Home, A History of the Vietnam War, by the Allegany High School Social Studies Department, Cumberland, MD: Allegany High School, 2005

Westvaco's Luke Mill Report/Bicentennial Edition, July 1976

Westvaco's Luke Mill Report, Winter 1989

Selected editions of the Cumberland News, Cumberland Times-News, Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland Sunday Times, The Republican, Hagerstown Herald-Mail, Frederick News-Post, the Associated Press and The Advocate. Other sources, such as assorted years of the Allegany High School Allegewi, Fort Hill High School Sabre, and Keyser High School Keyhisco yearbooks are identified on the specific pages.

Information on the buttons comes from over forty years of notes, newspaper and magazine clippings, flyers, hand-outs, and other sources associated with the collecting of buttons and used in the research of the 2003 political history poster entitled, Buttons of the Cause, 1960-2003: The Events, The People, The Organizations, The Issues.

In recent years, the following three books were written and published by Allegany College of Maryland Assistant Professor Lynn Bowman. These also provide research and insight into the area’s African-American history:
Being Black in Brownsville: Echoes of a ‘Forgotten’ Frostburg, 2011
Crossing into the Promised Land: An Appalachian African-American History, 2012
Living the Lie: Separate but Equal in Cumberland, Maryland, 2013