Thatcher’s Fish and Poultry
Ernest and Georgia Thatcher came to Cincinnati in 1929, a young African American couple from Kentucky hoping to make a better life together. His construction Continue Reading
Tag: Frederick Douglass School
Charles Dillard
Dr. Dillard grew up in Walnut Hills in the 1940’s-50’s, attending Frederick Douglass School and Walnut Hills High School. He followed his father into medicine Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass School Building 1911
The Elm Street School for Colored Children had been built in 1872, when Cincinnati annexed Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street. The Arnett law of Continue Reading
Jennie Davis Porter
Jennie Davis Porter was born in 1876, the daughter of a school teacher and a former slave said to be Cincinnati’s first African American undertaker. Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass School performance, 1916
After the passage of the Arnett Law requiring school integration in 1877, the (white) Cincinnati School Board closed the Eastern and Western District Colored Common Continue Reading
Elm Street School, the Frederick Douglass School building, 1872
Walnut Hills north of McMillan Street annexed itself to the city of Cincinnati in 1870, at the height of progressive Black Reconstruction. The merger included Continue Reading
Robert Gordon, businessman
Robert Gordon, a Black man who lived in Cincinnati from about 1847 through his death in 1884, makes occasional appearances in obscure historical accounts of Continue Reading