Andrew Johnson DeHart and Jennie Jackson move to Cincinnati, 1885
J. DeHart visited Cincinnati from time to time during his sojourn in Tennessee in the early 1880s. When in town he frequently spoke at churches Continue Reading
Category: Education
Reconstructing the Destruction of Gaines High School
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
A. J. DeHart as a Congregationalist Minister 1878-1884
We have been following the career of Andrew Johnson DeHart, an 1873 graduate of Cincinnati’s Gaines Colored High School, as he taught in the Colored Continue Reading
A. J. DeHart as a Young Teacher and Public Intellectual in Cincinnati 1873-1878
A. J. DeHart graduated from Cincinnati’s Gaines Colored High School in 1873. He went to work teaching in the “District” Colored elementary schools, one of Continue Reading
The Early Life and Education of A. J. DeHart: 1855 – 1873
In 1886, Andrew Johnson DeHart became principal of what was then called the Walnut Hills Colored School. He served until his death in 1909. Under Continue Reading
The Amazing History of Frederick Douglass School
From its earliest beginnings in 1872 to the present, Frederick Douglass School has been a central institution in Walnut Hills. Its alumni include an Olympic Continue Reading
The Union of Theological Students, 1882-1883
Lane Seminary, a Presbyterian institution in Walnut Hills founded in 1829, maintained a progressive theological stance through much of its century-long history. During the academic Continue Reading
Walnut Hills and the Great Migration (November, 2020)
At our November, 2020, virtual meeting, Geoff Sutton presented research on how Cincinnati and Walnut Hills responded to the Great Migration. This research grew out Continue Reading
Sadie Samuels: What Success Looked Like for a Black Woman in the early Twentieth Century
Sadie Samuels was born in 1892 in Cincinnati’s West End. In the 1900 census the household included the eight-year-old Sadie, an African-American girl; her grandfather Continue Reading
A brief history of the Frederick Douglass School buildings
1855: Dangerfield Earley’s School Before the Civil War many African Americans settled in Cincinnati. The city had a separate system of Colored Public Schools for Continue Reading