Web site details black history in W. Md.

Lorraine Wells was about to give up. More than 10 years of searching for clues about the now-deceased father she never knew while growing up in Cumberland had produced nothing.

Then the 46-year-old Oakland, Calif., resident got a call from her brother Jeffrey, who lives in Cumberland, about a Web site that chronicles Western Maryland's black history. The Allegany County African American History collection comprises more than 400 images, includes ... Full Story »

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by Derek Hawkins - Feb. 27, 2009

A fine, balanced profile of a local historian who created a Web site documenting Western Maryland's black history.

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