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
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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
Douglass School Garden Club, 1910
This photograph appeared in the 1920 celebration of the tenth anniversary of the new Frederick Douglass School building. The caption reads: “School Gardening was started Continue Reading
Sarah Gibson Jones
Many African Americans in Cincinnati before the Civil War arrived responsible for their own freedom. Many had found ways as enslaved people to purchase their Continue Reading
DeHart Hubbard
William DeHart Hubbard was born in Walnut Hills on November 25, 1903, the first of eight children. His middle name honored Andrew DeHart, principal of Continue Reading