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In its 37th year, Juneteenth Cincinnati is the oldest Juneteenth festival in the city and is considered to be among the oldest in the state of Ohio. It has been operating annually since 1988 when ...
2020. (2020) Location. Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Coordinates. 39°06′16″N 84°31′08″W / 39.1044°N 84.5188°W / 39.1044; -84.5188. A "Black Lives Matter" street mural has been painted in Cincinnati, in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] The mural appears on Plum Street between Eighth and Ninth streets.
BFR Historic Tour of Black Cincinnati (presented by Metro). The tour will leave at 11 a.m. immediately following the Heritage Breakfast at Fountain Square with transportation provided by Metro.
Tillery was the first popularly elected Black Mayor in Cincinnati, Ohio, serving from 1991-1993, and he served on the Cincinnati City Council for 8 years. Tillery co-founded the United Black Students Association at the University of Cincinnati , was the Founder, President and CEO of The Center for Closing the Health Gap, and co-founded The ...
The Manse Hotel is a historic place and former hotel in Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio which was important to the American civil rights movement.The hotel accommodated African American people (including many celebrities) and events (including local, state, and national civil rights groups meetings) during a time when African Americans were not allowed to stay in other Downtown hotels because ...
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Honors. Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1989) Jennie Davis Porter (1879 – 3 July 1936) was an American educator. She was the first African-American to receive a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and became the first black female principal of a public school in Cincinnati. In 1989, she was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame .
The Black Brigade of Cincinnati was a military unit of African-American soldiers, that was organized in 1862 during the American Civil War, when the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, was in danger of being attacked, by the Confederate Army. The members of the Cincinnati "Black Brigade" were among the first African Americans to be employed in the ...