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This exhibit celebrates the accomplishments, sacrifices, history and culture of African-Americans. The exhibits are selections from existing pictorial essays and images in Toledo's Attic as well as relevant collections and exhibits at the WArd M. Canaday Center, Toledo Public Library, WGTE, the Library of Congress, National Archives, and other institutions.
Toledo's Attic Essays on African-Americans
Essay by Timothy Messer-Kruse
Paul Laurence Dunbar was a young man who saw firsthand the fruits of struggle. His father escaped his slavery in Kentucky and made his way to Canada through Ohio, and then returned to fight with a Massachusetts regiment against the system that had held him in bondage. His mother fled the memory of her own captivity at the end of the Civil War. From them and others Dunbar knew the value of action and dreams.
Essay by Thomas E. Barden and Matthew Donahue
The whole things started in Frank and Sarah Hines' basement. By the time they built the club itself in 1957, Hines' Farm was already in full swing as a blues center. They had gotten a state liquor license in the late '40s when they were still operating out of the basement; in fact, they were the first African Americans in northwest Ohio to have one.
Toledo's Attic Essay From the Moses Fleetwood and Welday Walker and the 1883 Toledo Blue Stockings, to the various African American sparring partners that helped train Dempsey for his crushing defeat of Jess Willard in 1919, to the various twentieth century football players at the University of Toledo and various Toledo High Schools, African Americans have played a large part in the athletic successes of Northwest Ohio.
Photographs courtesy of Library of Congress, American Memory
WGTE Video (above): History and Biography. Cornerstones - The African-Americans
Quicklinks
The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
African-American History Collections in the Library of Congress, American Memory Collection
African-American Records at the National Archives
Black History (National Archives)
Black History Month (US Census Bureau)
Blackpast.org: Research Guides and Websites
Canaday Center Collections on African-Americans
Celebration Black History (Biography.com)
Images in Time: African-Americans (Toledo Public Library)
NAACP - A Century of Fight for Freedom (Library of Congress)
Veterans History Project - Browse over 1,400 items in the catalog; most are interviews with African-American veterans while some may be referencing African-Americans in the US military.
Research article by Barbara Floyd
Today's professional basketball is a game dominated by multimillion dollar players, huge crowds, and sleek arenas located in large urban centers. It is an exciting, fast-paced game where scores often total over 100 points per team. But professional basketball's early years were very different.
With permission from Northwest Ohio Journal.
View selected items below from the William M. Jones paper at the Canaday Center.
