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Reconstructing the Destruction of Gaines High School

Posted onNovember 9, 2021September 19, 2023AuthorGeoff Sutton

Cincinnati’s Colored Public School board, an institution established in the 1850s, created Gaines High School for our city’s Black students in 1866. Peter Clark, the Continue Reading

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Reconstructing the Destruction of Gaines High School

Posted onNovember 9, 2021September 19, 2023AuthorGeoff Sutton

Cincinnati’s Colored Public School board, an institution established in the 1850s, created Gaines High School for our city’s Black students in 1866. Peter Clark, the Continue Reading

CategoriesEducationTagsEducation

Frederick Douglass School Building 1911

Posted onJuly 12, 2017September 30, 2018Authoruser

The Elm Street School for Colored Children had been built in 1872, when Cincinnati annexed Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street. The Arnett law of Continue Reading

CategoriesEducationTagsFrederick Douglass School, Education, Buildings, Race Relations

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