African Americans in Cincinnati
Featured Essay
Eric R. Jackson, Guest Editor of our Spotlight on Cincinnati, is an Associate Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University. Dr. Jackson is the author of several books including Cincinnati's Underground Railroad, with Richard Cooper, and Northern Kentucky, a part of the Black America Series. Here he discusses the often overlooked African American history of Cincinnati.
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Guest Editor Eric R. Jackson, author and Associate Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, explores the past and present of Cincinnati's African American community. We see the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which not only illuminates the history of the Underground Railroad, but brings those lessons to modern day abolition issues, a colorful mural honoring the singer James Brown who recorded many of his early songs in Cincinnati, as well as a number of community churches with strong roots in the city that are still active today.
Featured Articles
The following entries have been selected to help guide readers who want to understand more about the African American experience in Cincinnati. (Access to the following articles is available only to subscribers.)
Subject Entries
- Avondale
- Bond Hill
- Cincinnati
- The Cincinnati Race Riots of 2001
- Kennedy Heights
- North Avondale Neighborhood Association
- Over-the-Rhine
- Underground Railroad in Cincinnati
- The West End
Biographies
- Battle, Kathleen
- Berry, Theodore "Ted"
- Booth, Lavaughn Venchael
- Brown, James
- Clark, Peter H.
- Coffey, Virginia
- Dabney, Wendell P.
- Gaines, Leslie Isaiah
- Griffey, Ken, Jr.
- Griffey, Ken, Sr.
- Locker, Jessie D.
- Mallory, William L.
- Parham, Marjorie
- Porter, Jennie D.
- Robertson, Oscar
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L.
- Spencer, Marian
- Turner, Bailey W.
- Ware, William
- Woodson, Thomas and Jemima
