Demographics – “Blue-Lining”
In 1932, Curtis Publishing released a marketing study based on what we would now call a “mashup” of circulation data for the popular Ladies’ Home Continue Reading
Tag: Race Relations
Dr. Lucy Oxley
Dr. Lucy Oxley, the first African American woman to earn an MD from the University of Cincinnati medical school (1935), ran her practice in Walnut Continue Reading
Teachers at white and Colored Common Schools
Walnut Hills residents Catherine and Harriett Beecher and Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell were all teachers in private schools during the 1830’s. Catherine Beecher especially advocated Continue Reading
Benjamin W. Arnett
Benjamin W. Arnett, a free African American born in Pennsylvania in 1838, moved to Walnut Hills in 1867 to pastor Brown Chapel, the AME church Continue Reading
Riots of 1841
Walnut Hills served as a place of refuge from the dust and stench of the city The suburb overlooked Deer Creek (now just a series Continue Reading