HistoryForge: Plans for the Future
The task of entering census information will take a long time, but even before we get all the people from all the years entered, we Continue Reading
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A. J. DeHart: Minister, Educator, Civic Leader
Links to more articles at the bottom. Andrew Johnson (A. J.) DeHart deserves wide recognition as a pillar of the Walnut Hills community. Born in 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
Douglass School, High Culture, and American Performing Art
In 1916, the (white) Cincinnati Commercial Tribune newspaper reviewed a “splendid” musical performance by the Douglass Choral Society. The reviewer observed that the group presented 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
Black Baseball: Walking Tour
Use the map below to do a self-guided tour of the historic baseball and other sites in Walnut Hills. The complete walk is about a Continue Reading
Black Baseball in Walnut Hills
Our neighborhood has a rich baseball history, most of it highlighting our African-American residents. In October, 2020, when the pandemic prevented us from going to Continue Reading
Sadie Samuels: What Success Looked Like for a Black Woman in the early Twentieth Century
Sadie Samuels was born in 1892 in Cincinnati’s West End. In the 1900 census the household included the eight-year-old Sadie, an African-American girl; her grandfather Continue Reading