"Negro Motorist Green Book"

More than just a guidebook for African American travelers.

Avondale Neighborhood

A neighborhood with a rich Black and Jewish history.

Beech Grove Cemetery

African American cemetery founded in 1889

Bryant's Snack Shop & Barbeque

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

Enslaved People at Dinsmore Homestead

Unfolding the complex Black history on an 1842 farm in Boone County, Kentucky.

Evergreen Cemetery

The Largest Cemetery in Kentucky’s Campbell County and Burial Site of Black Veterans

Farmers' College

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

First Baptist Church of Walnut Hills

Serving the local Black community since the mid-1800s.

Fountain Lewis

Fountain Lewis (b. Frankfort, KY, August 1820-d. January 4, 1898, Cincinnati, OH, buried Union Baptist Cemetery) Barber, Entrepreneur, Community Leader

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. 

Gordon Hotel

Famous as a Green Book site, this building was one of the few hotels in Cincinnati that offered rooms for black travelers during Jim Crow.

Gravesite of Adeline McMicken Rollins

Mixed-race daughter of Charles McMicken, who endowed the University of Cincinnati

Gravesite of Reverend William P. Newman

Founder of Union Baptist Cemetery

Gravesite of Robert Harlan

Larger-than-life politician

Gravesite of Rosa Washington Riles

Depicted Aunt Jemima in the 1950s

Gravesite of the Fossett Family

A remarkable family journey from slavery to freedom.

Green Book Sites in Cincinnati