Frederick Douglass and Spencer Center Fourth Grade History Club Spring 2018
Fourth graders from Frederick Douglass School and the Spencer Center have a combined history club. The Douglass kids stay after school; always start with a Continue Reading
Category: Education
Dr. Loretta C. Manggrum
Loretta Cessor, born in 1896 in Gallipolis, Ohio, had African American, Irish and Native American ancestry. Her mother was a teacher who played the piano Continue Reading
Ida Mae Rhodes
Ida Mae Rhodes was born in 1899 and lived until 2000 – 101 years. She went to the University of Cincinnati; most records show her Continue Reading
Donald Spencer, Douglass School teacher
Donald Spencer was born in Cincinnati in 1915. He went to public schools and graduated from Walnut Hills High School in 1932. At Walnut Hills, Continue Reading
The Great Migration
In the nineteenth century, both before and after the Civil War, most African Americans lived in the rural South. Cincinnati had a relatively high African Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass Elementary School 2008
In 2008 Cincinnati Public Schools built the fifth Frederick Douglass School. The facility is a better fit for younger students than the 1980 structure. With Continue Reading
Grace Smith Slade
James and Mary Smith lived in the African American settlement near the Elm Street Colored School, on Maple Street (later 2912 Park Avenue). They were Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass Colony School 1927
The Board of Education created a model school for the Walnut Hills African American community in 1911. (See our article on that building.) A few Continue Reading
Lawrence C. Hawkins, Ph. D.
Lawrence Hawkins was born in South Carolina in 1919, the son of a sharecropper. His family moved to Cincinnati in 1926, and he enrolled in Continue Reading
James H. Robinson, Sr.
James Robinson was born in Sharpsburg, Kentucky in 1887. He attended Fisk University, one of the premier Historically Black Colleges, founded in Nashville Tennessee in Continue Reading