Elizabeth Isabella Hudson

First teacher in the Newport “colored school”

Clinton Gibbs

Pianist, Music Director and Educator

Hortense Parker Gilliam

First Mount Holyoke Alumna of Color and Noted Pianist and Educator

Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati

Medical College that Graduated Some of the Earliest Black Physicians in the US

Rosella French Porterfield

Educator and Civil Rights Activist

Southgate Street School

A school dedicated to educating African American children in Newport, Kentucky

Joyce Moore and the Power of Black Girl Hair

John Isom Gaines

A Creator and Defender of Cincinnati's Colored Schools.

Gravesite of Pernia McKinney

Life-long learner

Gravesite of Lena Beatrice Morton

Literary scholar who fought discrimination

Ida Gray Nelson Rollins

First Black Female Doctor of Dental Surgery in the US

Lula Bogie Turner

Glendale Elementary School's first African American teacher

Theodora G. Oxley

Eckstein School's African American teacher and principal

Farmers' College

How this institution helped facilitated the Underground Railroad in College Hill Underground.

Frederick Douglass School Library

Since the nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Public Library provided service in the district’s school buildings. Douglass was no different; it housed a small library for the use of its students. 

Home of Alice Easton Leland

First Black woman to graduate from the University of Cincinnati

Lincoln Grant School

former segregated school in Kentucky

Home of Jennie Davis Porter

A Pioneer for Black Education