Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker amongst other Bishops, General Officers, Delegates and Lay persons at the 33rd General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940’s and father of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, who became 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_B
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of two-year-old Yvonne Walker-Taylor in the backyard of her home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor became 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_B05F09_C_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: Massachusetts
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with unidentified students. Walker-Taylor became 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_B05F01_L
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: James Edward "Eddie" Saunders and other radio station staff working on the "Breaking All Time" telegraph receiving program for Mother's Day, ca. 1950 - 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00743
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor amongst unidentified individuals at a train station. Yvonne Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. She later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became 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_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Illustration by Thomas Nast depicting the charge of the 54th Massachusetts on Fort Wagner. Caption reads: "Entred according to Act of Congress A.D. 1867 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the clerks office of the district court of the southern district of New York." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC16
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865; Artists
Places: New York
 

Description: Photograph of Po-Go-Nay-Ke-Shick (Hole in the Day), the celebrated Chippewa chief, ca. 1880-1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03835
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; American Indians in Ohio; American Indian history and society; Clothing and dress
Places: Minnesota
 

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 of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker kneeling in the front yard of his home. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_E_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Religion in Ohio; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of three men at an Army camp. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B06F21_I
Subjects: African American men; African American soldiers
 

Description: Photograph of two African American children, from the Allfree Family Collection, ca. 1944. The Allfree Family moved from Alabama to Cincinnati, Ohio, around 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03738
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Children
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows women of the Butler County Emergency School's sewing project sewing at someone's home. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County, Middletown, Ohio, Seventeenth Street. Sewing and different types of Needlecraft. Mrs. Thenie Latham, Teacher." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F04_013_1
Subjects: Sewing; Teachers; Education; African Americans; Schools--Ohio; Works Progress Administration
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)