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Allegany County African American History

Collage of Allegany County famous African Americans

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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

Photo of 4 band members playing drums and 3 saxophone players

Carver High School Dance Band 1954

4 Carver High School student with aprons on participate in shop class while teacher oversees woodwork

Carver High School shop class

3 students of Carver High School shop class sanding tables and nailing a chair

Carver High School shop class - sanding

2 photos of Carver High students; 1 photo class picture from 1955, 1 photo of reunion of class from 1978

Carver High students and alumni

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

Carver High teacher had profound impact

Black and white photo of Carver School circa 1950s

Carver School

Tombstone of Catherine Tross

Catherine Tross, 1870-1892

Photo of Charles K. Denmark

Charles K. Denmark, 1932-2012

Postcard of McKendree Methodist Episcopal Church, Cumberland MD

Charles Washington

Photo of Charles E. Waterman

Charles Watermann

Cropped photo of Chester "Leroy" Carter

Chester "Leroy" Carter

Newspaper article titled "A Runaway"

Christopher Ater - runaway

Police officers are congratulated for awards

Christopher Hill - patrolman

Newspaper article titled "Citizens told 'We must stand up and be counted'"

Citizens told 'We must stand up and be counted'

Photo and Newspaper clipping; photo of 5 people at reception; clipping of article title "City history on public TV"

City history on public TV

Barber Derik Stephens poses in front of his barbershop chair seat

City seeing a rise of black entrepreneurs. 2019

Newspaper article titled "Marchers Gather At Court House" from Civil Rights Rally, 1968

Civil Rights Rally, 1968 - Allegany County Courthouse

Photo collage of 6 photos documenting people training at National Defense Training School in Cumberland MD

Civilian Conservation Corps

2 men shaking hands; Clarence Edward Trimble, Sr. – First “Negro” Korean War Registrant 1951

Clarence Edward Trimble, Sr. - First "Negro" Korean War Registrant

Cropped image of baseball player from 1920s

Clarence Smith

Photo of Clarence W. Hall

Clarence W. Hall

Photo of Cleggett and Brown (C&B) softball team circa 1960-70s

Cleggett and Brown softball team

Photo of Clifton Brooks with portrait of military photo and miniature Tuskegee airman model statue

Clifton Brooks, Tuskegee Airman

Newspaper clipping of new low income apartment complex building

Colored housing project gets roof

Photo of William Peck speaking at Allegany Board of Education hearing, 2023

Commemoration of 1956 Integration in Allegany County, Maryland schools

Photograph of Carver School, Allegany County, Maryland

Community Center now has Carver deed

Photo of group from CommUNITY gathering

CommUNITY Gathering, 2015

Button of Martin Luther King with text "don't let the dream die"

Community Unity Young Winners Announced

Confederate monument at Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, Maryland; marker reads "To the Unknown Confederate Dead"

Confederate Monument, Rose Hill Cemetery

Photo of Allegany High School girls track team 1963

Connie Davis, 1945-2022 - Allegany High track

Photo of Constance Richey

Constance Richey

Newspaper clipping of group of children at first communion

Converts honored at First Communion - St Peter and Paul

Coretta Scott King visits students at Frostburg University 1981

Coretta Scott King - Frostburg State College, 1981

Photo of button for Obama Democrat U.S. Senate 2004

Coverage lacked photo of African-American speaker

Critty Dias Powell Monument with family and friends in chairs and standing gathered to unveil monument

Critty Dias Powell, Monument to a Former Slave

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

Newspaper clipping of Crystal Fields national champion in her division in the National Pitch-Hit-Run Competition

Crystal Fields

Image of Cumberland Maryland AME Church

Cumberland A.M.E. Church

Image of laying the cornerstone at Bethel AME Church, Cumberland MD

Cumberland A.M.E. Church Cornerstone Ceremony

Team photo of Cumberland Cubs baseball team circa 1920s

Cumberland Cubs

Team photo of Cumberland Cubs baseball team 1921

Cumberland Cubs 1921

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

Cumberland Ladies of the KKK

2 photos of march celebrating Cumberland Pride and Black Lives Matter in Cumberland MD

Cumberland Pride/March for Black Lives

1963 Allegany High Football team

Danny Darr - Allegany High School football

Two people holding plaques in front of them posing for photograph

Danny Darr and Marsha Williams-Vickers

Cropped photo of Darlene Shelton

Darlene Shelton, AME Women's Missionary Society Honoree

Button of "Vote Darrell Lee Powell" The People's Reporter

Darrell Lee Powell

Newspaper clipping promoting Cab Calloway at Crystal Park

Davis Tourist Home - Cab Calloway

Newspaper article titled City Native Trains Youngest Gymnasts; woman in leotard with arms up

Debbie Beckward

Newspaper article of Debbie Beckward standing making hand gesture

Debbie Beckward (1950-2024) - One-Woman Play

Photo of Delores Trimble

Delores Trimble, 1929-2011

White church on corner

Dickerson A.M.E. Church - Frostburg