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Berry returned to Cincinnati in 1969 and was appointed to City Council in 1971. He was elected mayor in 1972 and served for four years—Cincinnati's first African-American mayor. In the 1980s and 1990s, Berry struggled to return proportional representation to Cincinnati because he firmly believed that it gave a fair share of power to Black voters.
The University of Cincinnati ( UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the second oldest institution of higher education in the Cincinnati area [6] (behind Miami University) and has an annual enrollment of over 50,000 students, making it ...
The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it was the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. It participates in the United Negro College Fund . Central State University, also in Wilberforce, Ohio, began as a ...
Greg Hand is a prolific writer of Cincinnati history. After retiring from the University of Cincinnati as associate vice president of public relations in 2014, Hand began his blog, Cincinnati ...
Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer. July 28, 2024 at 9:40 PM. One hundred years ago, DeHart Hubbard of Avondale made history as the first Black athlete to win an individual Olympic gold medal when he ...
The remaining three public institutions— Shawnee State University, Central State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University —are relatively small. Case Western Reserve University is the state's largest private university by enrollment, followed by the University of Dayton, Xavier University, Franklin University, Ashland University ...
Honors. Ohio Women's Hall of Fame (1989) Jennie Davis Porter (1879 – 3 July 1936) was an American educator. She was the first African-American to receive a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and became the first black female principal of a public school in Cincinnati. In 1989, she was posthumously inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame .