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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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
Low Cost Housing History – Washington Terrace Community
The Washington Terrace Apartment Complex built by Jacob Schmidlapp’s Model Homes Company west of Gilbert and south of Blair was built on vacant land that 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