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
Tag: Black History
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
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