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Tag: Black History

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

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

Irene Kirke, Black O’Bryonville Woman in Business from the 1910s

Irene Kirke, an African American woman, was born in 1887 in what was then the small town of Milford, outside of Cincinnati. She attended public Continue Reading

Fountain Lewis Sr.

In the previous post we met the Black barber Fountain Lewis, Sr. who was active in Cincinnati for more than half a century from the Continue Reading

Fountain Lewis Sr., barbering and Music Hall.

The Friends of Music Hall posted a wonderful blog entry on Fountain Lewis, Sr., a Black barber active in Cincinnati from the early 1840s until Continue Reading

Horace Sudduth, Cincinnati City Council, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association 1921

Horace Sudduth has generally been cast as a businessman who steered clear of politics. In 1921, however, Sudduth was willing to run for Cincinnati City Continue Reading

Horace Sudduth and Real Estate as Investment and Wealth in the Black Community

We have seen in the previous posts that Horace Sudduth served as his community’s Real Estate agent, selling hundreds of homes to Black owner-occupants. Sudduth’s Continue Reading

Horace Sudduth and the Industrial Building and Loan Corporation

Horace Sudduth founded the Industrial Building and Loan Corporation in December 1919. Its main office was in Sudduth’s West End real estate office, but from Continue Reading

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