Article: New faces of Princess Anne: With a majority black government and growing ties to nearby UMES, the Somerset County seat is leaving its discriminatory past behind.

Byline: Chris Guy

Jun. 13--PRINCESS ANNE--The University of Maryland Eastern Shore sits on a sprawling campus just outside the boundaries of this Colonial-era town. For years, it might as well have been in another county. The historically black college was shunned by generations of white leaders in Princess Anne, a place with a legacy of discrimination and Jim Crow segregation. But last week, two African-Americans with ties to the college were elected to the town commission - bringing to three the number of blacks on the five-member panel and creating the first majority-black government in the town's 233-year history. "We know how it was, but we're not so ...

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