Description: Young African American children at a feeding program at Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00017
Subjects: Butler County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; African American children; African American women; African American educators
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two (2) Liberian women on a street, one sitting and one lying down in her lap. The woman laying down is getting her hair done by the seated woman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P3_B02F07_O
Subjects: Women; African Women; Hairdressing; Hair
Places: Liberia (Africa)
 

Description: Photograph of two unidentified women and a young girl standing in front of an unidentified house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F64_1
Subjects: African American women; African American children
 

Description: Illustration of women and children washing in a camp from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_27
Subjects: African American women; African American children; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, Al and two unidentified women at the beach in Boston, Massachusetts. 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_08_1_4
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; African American men; Cars; Automobiles
Places: Boston (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph of three unidentified women walking down the street in St. Vincent in the West Indies, the birthplace of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker. Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F10_A_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; Religion in Ohio; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: West Indies
 

Description: A former slave, Ms. Bowers, participated in the ex-slave interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration ca 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_010_001
Subjects: Slavery; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Elderly women; African American women--Ohio; Women--Ohio.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The caption reads: " 'Never too old to learn!' Carrie Kirk, an ex-slave who is 101 years of age, is a regular student in a WPA literacy class in Sterling Library, Cleveland. "Mother Kirk," as she is known to the other class members, was born on March 31, 1837, on a plantation in West Virginia. During the Civil War, her master sold her services for $100 a year as a seamstress in a large factory in Charlotte where she made Confederate uniforms. She is the mother of 16 children. she has lived in Cleveland for 18 years, having moved in 1920 from Richmond, Virginia." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_011_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Older women; African American women--Ohio; Adult education--Ohio; Literacy; Former slaves
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an elderly African American woman, likely an ex-slave documented as part of the efforts of the Works Progress Administration. The photograph is a part of the Federal Ohio Writers' Program of the WPA. The photograph was taken by Sam R Kremer of Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_013_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Slavery; Elderly women; African American Ohioans; Women--Ohio; Former slaves
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Ms (?) Bowers was a former slave who participated in the ex-slave interviews, conducted by the Works Projects Administration, ca 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_014_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' ProjectSlavery; Elderly women; African American women--Ohio; Women--Ohio.
Places: Ohio
 

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: Photograph of Frances E. Brown, seventeen months old, with her grandmother Frances Jane, the mother of Hallie Quinn Brown, who was ninety-one years old. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B10F05_J
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; African American Educators; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio