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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

Peter Clark

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

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