Black Business on Lincoln Avenue: The First Ice Cream Parlor, 1878
The Black entrepreneurs William H. Fox and Rolla Pryor opened the first “Ice Cream Saloon” on Lincoln Avenue in 1878. We have seen in a Continue Reading
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Walnut Hills and the Great Migration (November, 2020)
At our November, 2020, virtual meeting, Geoff Sutton presented research on how Cincinnati and Walnut Hills responded to the Great Migration. This research grew out Continue Reading
Baseball in Walnut Hills: Manggrum’s Drug Store, the Recreation Commission, and Black Sports
Click here to see more information about Black Baseball in Walnut Hills From the 1870s for at least a century, baseball was the national pastime. Continue Reading
Walnut Hills (Melrose) YMCA
With the closing of the Melrose YMCA for a remodeling that will leave most of the space in the hands of other non-profit organizations, we Continue Reading
Major Savings and Loan
Major Savings and Loan, located primarily at Gilbert and Lincoln Avenues, was the longest-lived African American Savings and Loan in Cincinnati, operating from 1921 until Continue Reading
Dr. Loretta C. Manggrum
Loretta Cessor, born in 1896 in Gallipolis, Ohio, had African American, Irish and Native American ancestry. Her mother was a teacher who played the piano Continue Reading
Black Business District – Information from Green Books
The Negro Motorist Green Book was published from 1937 thru 1964 (with a few years missing for WW2). It listed places friendly to Black travelers and Continue Reading
Thatcher’s Fish and Poultry
Ernest and Georgia Thatcher came to Cincinnati in 1929, a young African American couple from Kentucky hoping to make a better life together. His construction Continue Reading
