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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

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

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Ante Bellum Arnett Law Beecher family Big Business Black Brigade Black Business District Black History Black Laws Brown Chapel Buildings Business Churches Church of the Advent Cincinnati Public Schools Civil War Culture Dangerfield Earley Education First Baptist Frederick Douglass School Gilbert Avenue Harriet Beecher Stowe Housing Industries Jacob Schmidlapp Kindergarten Lane Seminary Medicine NAACP Peebles Corner Peter Clark Philanthrophy Philanthropy Public Schools Race Relations Reconstruction Robert Gordon Self-emancipation Transportation Underground Railroad University of Cincinnati Victory Parkway Washington Terrace WEB DuBois Women's History

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