Description: A resolution dedicated to Colonel Charles Young, urging the United States Congress to pass House Resolution 5308 allowing the promotion of Young to Brigadier General. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F04_B
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Kentucky
 

Description: Photograph of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Asa Philip Randolph and Percy Sutton attending a luncheon at the Hotel Commodore in London in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Anna Arnold Hedgeman was a prominent figure in civil rights, women's rights and education in the 20th century. She taught at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi after graduating as the first African American woman to earn a degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hedgeman was the first African American woman to serve on the cabinet of a New York mayor in the 1950s and in 1963 she helped A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin plan the March on Washington. She held honorary doctorates from both Howard University and Hamline University, was an executive of the YWCA and was the author of two books: "The Trumpet Sounds" and "The Gift Of Chaos." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS15_B05F02_03_2
Subjects: African American women; African American authors; African American Educators; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; African American men; Politicians; Civil rights; Howard University; Activists
 

Description: Photograph of Merritt Hedgeman, husband of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, performing on stage. Anna Arnold Hedgeman was a prominent figure in civil rights, women's rights and education in the 20th century. She taught at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi after graduating as the first African American woman to earn a degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hedgeman was the first African American woman to serve on the cabinet of a New York mayor in the 1950s and in 1963 she helped A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin plan the March on Washington. She held honorary doctorates from both Howard University and Hamline University, was an executive of the YWCA and was the author of two books: "The Trumpet Sounds" and "The Gift Of Chaos." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS15_B08_02
Subjects: African American women; African American authors; African American Educators; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Politicians; Civil rights; Howard University; Activists; Music; Musicians; African American men
 

Description: This wool flag was presented in September 1862 to the African American men of Cincinnati who were part of the first organized group of black men employed for military purposes in the North. It is a United States national flag with 34 stars printed in a grid pattern on a blue canton. There are 13 stripes, seven red and six white. Text printed in black on fourth white stripe reads "BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI." The flag measures 40.55 by 75.59 inches (103 x 192 cm). The Black Brigade of Cincinnati was composed of 700 African American men. On September 1, 1862, all men were ordered to help defend the city, which was under martial law, from possible attacks by Southern forces. African American men, however, were not given the opportunity to volunteer, but rather were rounded up by the police on September 2. Once assembled, they built fortifications near the border between Ohio and Kentucky. After three weeks, they were released from service. Many later served in the first African American regiments organized in the North, the 54th and 55th Massachusetts and 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when efforts were taken to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display at the Ohio History Center from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. The collection was photographed in the 1960s and the images are now part of the Ohio History Connection's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_783340_001
Subjects: Military Ohio; African American Ohioans; Civil War; Black Brigade of Cincinnati; Flags; African American soldiers
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A certificate remembering, honoring, and recognizing Colonel Charles Young for his military service by Senator Robin L. Webb and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F04_H
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Kentucky
 

Description: This photograph of a man with a bicycle has been tentatively identified as Paul Laurence Dunbar. The man is pictured standing next to a bicycle, underneath a tree and in front of a white fence. The tree is in full bloom, suggesting that the picture was taken in the spring or summer months. Paul Laurence Dunbar was a prominent African American author, poet, and playwright in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose work gained national prominence. Dunbar was a native of Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05256
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Plays--African American authors; African American authors; African American men; African Americans--Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of African American children lined up to receive food. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM29_B03F08_06
Subjects: African American children; African American men; African American women
 

Description: Labeled photographs of Clarence Clinkscales from Orangeburg, South Carolina; Horace B. Rains from Columbus, Ohio; Herbert Hughes from Cincinnati, Ohio; Turner from Washington, D. C.; and Paris Vaughn Sterrett from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This is one of several pages taken from a scrapbook that belonged to Yvonne Walker-Taylor. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_04_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American men; African American Ohioans; African American women
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker and a group of unidentified children while vacationing in the West Indies, the birth place of Bishop Walker. Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F09_E_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators; African American Children
Places: West Indies
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with her parents Bishop Ormonde Walker and mother Eva Walker with an unidentified group of individuals. All are seated or standing around a table, after dessert was served. Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker became the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_Z3
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators; African American Children
 

Description: Photograph of Ada Young, the wife of Charles Young, with Lucienne Dalencour and Winnifred Scott. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B06F21_B
Subjects: African American women; African American men; African American soldiers; Military officers; Correspondence; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photographs of Herbert "Herb" Jeffries with Yvonne Walker-Taylor and a woman named Rosie. This is one of several pages taken from a scrapbook that belonged to Yvonne Walker-Taylor. Herbert Jeffrey, aka Herb Jefferies, the first African American singing cowboy. His first film was "Harlem on the Prairie" which was considered the first black western following the inauguration of the talkies. Herbert Jefferies sang his own songs in "The Bronze Buckaroo" and "Harlem Rides the Range." Following his movie career, Jefferies returned to singing and recorded "The Flamingo" with Duke Ellington. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_09_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; Music; Musicians; African American men
Places: Brooklyn (New York); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)