Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board is excited to have free Black History Month programs every Tuesday of February at noon in the Ohio Statehouse Atrium!
Tuesday, February 17 at noon
“Exhuming the Archives: Early Black Settlement Communities of Cincinnati, by The National Underground Railroad and Freedom Center”
Recommended for ages 13 and up.
This presentation will explore the Social Justice Curator’s recent investigative efforts to learn more about the inhabitants who called Little Africa, Bucktown, and Little Bucktown home in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. By sourcing newspaper archives and census data, she will demonstrate how she uses the resources of her public library to learn about the built environment around her.
