On February 28, 2004 Fulton Myers Post #153, American Legion hosted a Black History Month display and presentation. Visible here reviewing and attempting to identify items displayed on the table are, from left to right, Leroy "Poss" Younger, Charles Cheek, and William Colbert.
Speaker shares grandmother's advice
White House official never let her skin color be a hindrance
JAMES RADA
Times-News Staff Writer
CUMBERLAND — When Angela Sailor was a child, she used to sit on the front porch of her grandmother's house with her grandmother. They would rock on the porch swing, stare up at the stars in the sky and sip ice water.
"Don't ever let the color of your skin be a hindrance to doing the things God told you to do," Grandmother would say.
Keeping Martin Luther King's dream alive year-round
January 13, 2003
On Jan. 20, the nation will again celebrate the life accomplishments of the slain civil rights leader, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I will also honor the legacy of Dr. King in my own personal way.
Events to mark Black History Month
January 9, 2003
CUMBERLAND
“Few are too young, and none are too old, to make the attempt to learn.”
On February 28, 2004 Fulton Myers Post #153, American Legion hosted a Black History Month display and presentation. Depicted here reviewing an album of local black history photographs are, from left to right, are Everland "Margie" York, Norma Younger, Fatima Montiero, and Jean Etta Beckward. Depicted on the far right is Florence Meade who catered the event.
Student reviewing some of the exhibits at the Black history month displays at Frostburg State University, 2004
Jeopardy! Players Display Pride in Black History March 21, 2005
By Tai Shadrick, Times-News Staff Writer
FROSTBURG –
This is Jeopardy - well, sort of.
There was no Alex Trebek, cameramen or large blue screen monitors. But there were eager contestants, a live audience, buzzers and a cash prize.
This photograph was taken at Frostburg State University on April 19, 2005. This was during a special "Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration" event and program. The display items being viewed here by community members are from the collection of Albert and Angela Feldstein. Depicted in the background is Pansye Atkinson, also included on this website.
This photograph was taken at Frostburg State University on April 19, 2005. This was during a special "Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration" event and program. The display items being viewed here by community members are from the collection of Albert and Angela Feldstein.
In 1981 the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, visited the campus of Frostburg State College (now Frostburg State University.) Seated here, she is shown with three Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority sisters. They are from the left, Carolyn Ferguson West, Danyell Winkey-Smith and Jody Cole-Redman.
Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded in 1908 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. It is the first Greek-lettered sorority established by African-American college women. Coretta Scott King was an Honorary Member of AKA.