"Negro Motorist Green Book"

More than just a guidebook for African American travelers.

1983 NAACP March across Roebling Bridge

Grassroots Campaign to "bury [black] voter apathy" Traces Path of the Underground Railroad

Amy Avenue

The only trace of Douglass Park

Avondale Neighborhood

A neighborhood with a rich Black and Jewish history.

Beech Grove Cemetery

African American cemetery founded in 1889

Benna’s Barbershop

A former Black-owned business in the heart of Madisonville

Birch Brothers Architectural Firm

A Black-owned architectural firm in pre-Civil Rights movement Cincinnati

Birthplace of Mamie Smith “Queen of the Blues”

Born in Cincinnati in 1891, this Black female music legend is known as the "Queen of Blues"

Black Women on Lincoln Avenue in the 1870s

By looking at US Census data from 1870 and 1880, we can better understand the people who lived on what became Lincoln Avenue in 1877.

Bryant's Snack Shop & Barbeque

Cecelia Wright

National officer in the Sisters of the Mysterious Ten

Charlton Wallace House (Baumgartner Residence)

Former Catholic Monastery with an Underground Railroad Connection

Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women's Clubs Club House

Clubhouse of the Cincinnati Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in the former home of a Cincinnati Mayor

Clinton Gibbs

Pianist, Music Director and Educator

Delia Webster, Calvin Fairbank, and the Escape of Lewis Hayden

Devote's Corner

A prominent building once owned by entrepreneur Lizzie D. Branch

Dr. Charles Edward Horner

First Black Medical Doctor in Newport, KY

Dr. James E. Randolph

Northern Kentucky Physician who Inspired His Community