The Great Migration
In the nineteenth century, both before and after the Civil War, most African Americans lived in the rural South. Cincinnati had a relatively high African Continue Reading
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Frederick Douglass School Library 1911
Since the nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Public Library provided service in the district’s school buildings. Douglass was no different; it housed a small library for Continue Reading
Frederick Douglass Colony School 1927
The Board of Education created a model school for the Walnut Hills African American community in 1911. (See our article on that building.) A few Continue Reading
James H. Robinson, Sr.
James Robinson was born in Sharpsburg, Kentucky in 1887. He attended Fisk University, one of the premier Historically Black Colleges, founded in Nashville Tennessee in Continue Reading