Louis A Cornish, African American MD
Louis A Cornish, African American MD Louis A. Cornish (1872-1940) earned his MD from the African American Howard Medical School in 1898. The son of Continue Reading
Tag: Black Business District
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924
Drug stores in Black Walnut Hills: Walnut Hills Pharmacy, 1908-1924 The first Black-owned Drug Store in Walnut Hills appeared on Chapel Street in 1908. Named Continue Reading
Black Business on Lincoln Avenue: The First Ice Cream Parlor, 1878
The Black entrepreneurs William H. Fox and Rolla Pryor opened the first “Ice Cream Saloon” on Lincoln Avenue in 1878. We have seen in a 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
Baseball in Walnut Hills: Manggrum’s Drug Store, the Recreation Commission, and Black Sports
Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills From the 1870s for at least a century, baseball was the national pastime. Continue Reading
Walnut Hills (Melrose) YMCA
With the closing of the Melrose YMCA for a remodeling that will leave most of the space in the hands of other non-profit organizations, we Continue Reading
Ads for Black-owned or Black-friendly Businesses: Slideshow
Here is a selection of the ads from The Union, The Cincinnati Herald, The Ohio Enterprise, and NIP Magazine. These ads represent the range of Continue Reading
Black-owned or Black-friendly Businesses in Walnut Hills
Thanks to a grant from the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation, we researched ads in black newspapers and magazines from 1902 to 1980. The map below Continue Reading
Major Savings and Loan
Major Savings and Loan, located primarily at Gilbert and Lincoln Avenues, was the longest-lived African American Savings and Loan in Cincinnati, operating from 1921 until Continue Reading
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