1900 Census: Mapping our Neighborhood
Using both Google Maps and Google Earth, we have been able to visually display the census data from 1900. Google Maps shows each dwelling, color Continue Reading
Tag: Black History
1900 Census: The Census Pages and the Sanborn Insurance Maps
The 1900 census is available online through many sites. We used FamilySearch.org, setting up a free account. Once you are logged in, use this link Continue Reading
1900 Census: Research, Maps and Insights
For the past few years, the college-level course on African-American History at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts has been dedicating time to Continue Reading
Andrew J. DeHart: Insurance, Financial, and Philanthropic Leadership, 1886-1909
We have seen that Andrew J. DeHart had joined the Grand Unified Order of Odd Fellows as a young teacher in Cincinnati in the mid-1870s. Continue Reading
A. J. DeHart: the Cincinnati Civil Rights League, 1886-1890
When Andrew J. DeHart returned to Cincinnati in 1885 with his wife, Jubilee Singer Jenny Jackson, the couple stepped into leadership roles in the Black Continue Reading
Andrew DeHart’s Years in Tennessee, 1881-1884
A. J. Dehart’s travels in the decade after he left Cincinnati in 1877 fit a pattern for ambitious young African Americans during the Reconstruction era. 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
Washerwomen and the organization of their work
Walnut Hills had a long tradition of African American women taking in laundry. Calvin and Harriet Beecher Stowe engaged the services of an “Aunt Frankie” Continue Reading