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Tag: Gaines High School

Peter Clark

Reconstructing the Destruction of Gaines High School

Cincinnati’s Colored Public School board, an institution established in the 1850s, created Gaines High School for our city’s Black students in 1866. Peter Clark, the Continue Reading

Peter Clark: the Father of Black Baseball in Cincinnati

Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills Peter Humphries Clark was the Father of Black Baseball in Cincinnati. He is Continue Reading

Black Teachers during Reconstruction

Reconstruction presented a brief, brilliant decade of tremendous progress and optimism for the four million African American citizens of the US. Cincinnati’s Colored John I. Gaines Continue Reading

Cincinnati Colored Public Schools

The city of Cincinnati, following Ohio law, set aside the education taxes on African American held properties for “Colored Public Schools” beginning in the 1850’s. Continue Reading

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