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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.
Arrested. 158 in civil disobedience, 800 for curfew violations. [2] The 2001 Cincinnati riots were a series of civil disorders which took place in and around the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio from April 9 to 13, 2001. They began with a peaceful protest in the heart of the city on Fountain Square over the inadequate ...
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.
Dwight Tillery. Dwight Tillery (born March 10, 1948) is an American politician and social justice activist with more than 50 years of service working towards equity for African Americans and other minorities in politics, business and public health. His leadership transformed the lives of Black residents in the city of Cincinnati in the areas of ...
3. Peter Humphries Clark (March 29, 1829 – June 21, 1925) was an American abolitionist and speaker. One of Ohio's most effective black abolitionist writers and speakers, he became the first teacher engaged by the Cincinnati black public schools in 1849, and the founder and principal of Ohio's first public high school for black students in 1866.
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 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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