Reconstructing the Destruction of Gaines High School
…young men and women in 1869, five passed the exam for a teaching certificate from the (white) school board – an exam also required of Black teachers in the Colored… Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
…young men and women in 1869, five passed the exam for a teaching certificate from the (white) school board – an exam also required of Black teachers in the Colored… Continue Reading
…Greve, Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, v. 2, 1904, pp. 273-274. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Centennial_History_of_Cincinnati_and_Rep/YqcxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Shoe and Leather Reporter, Volume 51, April 28, 1891, p. 1032 and passim https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shoe_and_Leather_Reporter/m_E-AQAAMAAJ?hl=en Shoe and… Continue Reading
…gap would have left some traces. (At any rate the Northeastern Branch in Norwood, a joint project with YWCA, had a budget of $250,000 before adding a swimming pool. The… Continue Reading
…also providing community programming. Bertram published six different floor plans in a 1904 pamphlet, “Notes on Library Buildings”, stipulating separate reading rooms, a children’s room, a central librarian’s desk for… Continue Reading
…provided advice, and reviewed city contracts when they were issued and when they were completed. He was not afraid to asked hard questions of powerful contactors. After Lincoln’s presidential inauguration… Continue Reading
…democratic newspaper unsympathetic to Blacks, free or freed – suggest a more complicated domestic life. At any rate, accounts of Woods’ serious bout of smallpox while in Cincinnati – appearing… Continue Reading
…the command of the passenger’s needs and immense competence in meeting them on the railroad, would serve him well as a real estate agent to the white community. And like… Continue Reading
…Statistics show a low death rate, a low criminal rate and a large percentage of home owners. Many of these homes are not only comfortable but beautiful and reflect a… Continue Reading
…home.” At any rate at least two sisters joined her in her downtown Cincinnati residence within a few years of her settling here. Dr. Ellen Kirk Like the Blackwell sisters,… Continue Reading
…Howells organized a “Free Dispensary Association for Women and Children” to support their efforts to replicate the Blackwell sisters’ first clinic in New York. They immediately recruited “thirty-five philanthropic women”… Continue Reading