William Burns Robert Hughes
CUMBERLAND, MD -- 12/19/21 -- Tifani Fisher, president of the Allegany County NAACP, in front of her church, the Metropolitan AME.
âMy family actually originates from Garrett County, Maryland, which is even further up the mountainâ¦and we built a Black community there and they were pushed out when Garrett County, which used to be a part of Allegany County separated and became a sundown county."
Her work in the community has been instrumental in preserving the history of the Black community and in sorting out the truth of the lynching of William Burns, aka Robert Hughes.â¦André Chung/ICTJ