Civil Rights Movement in Portsmouth, Ohio
Explore the history of the Civil Rights Movement in Portsmouth, Ohio, where the city’s black residents resisted the development of racial segregation and other…
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Fifteenth Amendment Ratification Celebration in Portsmouth, Ohiolocation_fillOn Wednesday, the 27th of April 1870, a coalition of white and black residents turned out for a celebration ho…
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Booker T. Washington School on Eleventh Streetlocation_fillPortsmouth City Schools opened their first segregated facility for African American students in 1859, marking … -
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Jim Crow at Wurster Brothers Drug Store on Chillicothe Streetlocation_fillThe New York Times reported: "The African Methodist Conference, in session here to-day, was thrown into confus… -
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Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"location_fillThe black civic movement led to the formation of the Portsmouth Welfare League in May 1928, organized in the a… -
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Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theaterlocation_fillCapitalizing on Joe Louis's new won fame, Hollywood movie director Harry L. Fraser would cast Louis to star in… -
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Bessie Tomlin and the Ohio River Flood of 1937location_fillAll the public schools in Portsmouth, Ohio, closed at the end of the school day on January 21, which, as luck … -
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Dr. James F. Scott, the First Elected Black County Coroner in the United Stateslocation_fillJames Forrest Scott was born in Porter, Ohio located in Gallia County, on 29 July 1903. He graduated from Bidw… -
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Eugene McKinley Memorial Pool: "A Place in the Sun for Everyone”location_fillOn Friday, June 9th, 1961, McKinley and a group of other African American school boys went swimming in a flood… -
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Integrating Portsmouth, Ohio’s Dreamland Poollocation_fillDiscrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin was now banned by federal law. The Civi…
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