Signature Collections

Allegany County African American History

Collage of Allegany County famous African Americans

About: Segregation, Intolerance, and Integration

Other topics within this collection:

Arts and Entertainment

Government and Law

Segregation, Intolerance, and Integration

Slaves and the Underground Railroad

Sports: Football and Basketball

Sports: Baseball, Boxing, and Track

Black History Month, Juneteenth, and MLK Events

Buttons - African American

Acknowledgements and Bibliography

About Al Feldstein

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Newspaper advertisement - 31 Help Wanted ad

"Help wanted - colored cook"

2 photos, one at Dunker Church service and second of 2 people at a peace and unity rally in Washington County MD

“Peace and Unity” Prevails in Washington County, 2004

Group of 4 men pause for picture in front of mural in Frederick MD

A living tribute, Frederick County

Cropped image of Randolph W. Bromery with plaques and photos on pegboard in background

A story of American courage

Postcard image of Antietam National Cemetery

Black soldiers buried separately at Antietam

Newspaper article titled "It's better, but much is left to do"

Blacks view civil rights movement

Collage of 3 photos; young students presented with savings bonds, Carver High School debate team, Carver High School class of 1951

Breaking Barriers

Cropped photo of Earle Bracey

Carver High School - relic of an era

Newspaper article titled "Carver High teacher had profound impact on students"

Carver High teacher had profound impact

2 Newspaper articles titled "Cross burning" and "Burning of cross has no place here"

Cross burning 1993

Article titled "Cross Burning by the Klu Klux Klan in Vale Summitt"

Cross burning at Vale Summit

Students at Allegany High School in 1955 greet new integrated students; 4 students in photo, 2 carrying books

Crossing the Bridge

Klu Klux Klan parade; members with white robes, hoods and banners circa 1925

Cumberland Ladies of the KKK

Klu Klux Klan rally; members with white robes and hoods circa 1925

Fort Cumberland Klan #37 of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

photo of three Fort Hill graduates 1956, two males, one female

Fort Hill graduates 1956

2 photos; Frederick Douglass button for the National Negro Congress, postcard of the Queen City Hotel, Cumberland MD

Frederick Douglass, Cumberland's Emancipation Celebration, 1879

Newspaper article titled "Frostburg Visited by KKK Members"

Frostburg Visited By KKK Members

Ida Ruth (Price) Gulliver and friend pose for picture; background text reads "In Tribute to One Powerful Woman"

Ida Ruth (Price) Gulliver

Newspaper article titled "Inspired by teachers, together we overcame segregation"

Inspired by teachers, together we overcame segregation

Postcard of Beall High School, Allegany County MD

Integration to get underway in eight of Maryland's counties

Newspaper article

Jim Crow - The Railroad Lost Money, 1904

Newspaper article title "First Integrated Students to Graduate In Local Schools"; pic of 6 graduating students - 4 men, 1 of whom is black & 2 white women

Judy Leath, Harold Hilton, William Peck

2 photos of KKK march; 1st of members outside of Allegany County, Maryland Courthouse holding flags, 2nd of protestors in front of Allegany Library

KKK "Rally" - Cumberland, 2014

2 photos during KKK march 2004; photo of members in robes and white hoods carrying confederate flags; 4 police on horses

KKK marches in Washington county, 2004

Klu Klux Klan members on train to head to rally in Washington DC, 1925

Ku Klux Klan at Cumberland station

Members of Klu Klux Klan in robes and hood board train in Cumberland MD circa 1925s

Ku Klux Klan board train at Queen City Station

News flyer: Coming Western Maryland Field Day - Women of the Klu Klux Klan, Cumberland MD

Ku Klux Klan Field Day 1925

Klu Klux Klan member in parade

Ku Klux Klan in Oakland, 1925 Maryland

Flyer for Maryland Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan rally 1973

Black and white image of Lincoln (colored) school in Frostburg MD

Lincoln School history traced

Cropped image of young black woman standing behind a piano

Mary Louise Pope and Patricia Ann Hurt - Allegany High

Photo of Fort Hill High School, Cumberland MD circa 1950s

No Integration Violence In Md.

Cropped image of Pansye Atkinson

Pansye S. Atkinson (1930-2022)

Photo of newspaper advertisement titled "Washington Camp No. 62 Patriotic Order of Sons of America"

Patriotic Order Sons of America

Drawing of with Athletics text; depicts 2 people in KKK robes with black man jumping a fence and arrow with text "Great Open Spaces"

Penn Avenue School - 1928 Yearbook

2 photos; 1 of postcard of Columbia School; 1 of Hill School, Allegany County MD

Public School Integration Makes Start