Description: This color map documents Franklin County's housing patterns, with information about the African American population distribution by census tract in 1970. On the reverse side of the map is the numerical 1970 census information indicating African American population in Franklin County by census tract. This map may have been useful to track any patterns of civil rights violations in Franklin County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS785_B02F01_01_01
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; African Americans--Ohio; Housing--Ohio--Columbus; Civil rights;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles A. Garlick was born a slave in 1827, with the name Abel Bogguess. He escaped from slavery into Pennsylvania and settled in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he worked for Joshua R. Giddings. This photograph was taken in 1895. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03201
Subjects: Jefferson (Ohio); Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; African Americans--History; Portrait photography
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration depicting the marks of punishment inflicted upon an an enslaved person in Richmond, Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC18_B01F16
Subjects: Slavery; Ohio History -- Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; African Americans--History
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait depicting Rev. James P. Poindexter (1819-1907), an abolitionist, pastor and politician. He moved to Columbus in 1838 with his wife Adelia Atkinson, where he lived until his death in 1907. Poindexter served as pastor of the Second Baptist Church, assisted escaping slaves traveling through Columbus, founded the Colored Soldiers Relief Society during the Civil War, and served in political positions at the state and municipal level. In 1880 he became the first African American elected to the Columbus City Council. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02703
Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Poindexter, James Preston, 1819-1907; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Columbus (Ohio). City Council; American Baptist Church--Clergy
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken at the May 1892 dedication of a monument honoring abolitionist John Rankin named "Freedom's Heroes," on the grounds of the cemetery in Ripley, Ohio. Rankin (1793-1886) and his wife Jane (identified in some later records, as well as on this monument, as Jean) worked with their neighbors to assist thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. The monument includes the couple's birth and death dates, and is topped by a bust of Rankin. The crowd in the picture includes a number of African Americans with a range of ages, possibly those whom Rankin helped to freedom as well as their descendants. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01028
Subjects: African Americans--History; Underground Railroad; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Monuments & memorials
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Langstons, an African-American family, kept an Underground Railroad station at their home, pictured here, in Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio. This photograph was taken by Diathea C. Scholl. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03189
Subjects: African Americans--Ohio; Underground Railroad; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Ohio National Guard troops and police officers in a crowd outside of Westside Barber Shop in Akron, Ohio, 1968. The National Guard troops were likely in Akron in response to a civil disturbance, and the soldiers nearest the camera can be seen holding rifles. The crowd in the center seems to be engaged in a non-violent protest. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05179
Subjects: African Americans--Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; Protests and protestors
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken during the dedication of the Landing Monument to Underground Railroad heroes along the Ohio River in Ripley, Ohio, ca. 1912. The monument is draped in an American flag before its unveiling. Located along the Ohio River in Brown County, the town of Ripley was an active location on the Underground Railroad, followed by fugitive slaves crossing the river from Kentucky on their journey to Canada. Because Ohio was a free state, communities like the one pictured here sprang up as homes for freed and formerly enslaved African Americans and their families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC652_06
Subjects: African Americans--History; Underground Railroad; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Monuments & memorials
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)