Articles About Ohio Civil Rights Commission

• Yellow Springs police officer Naomi Penrod charges discrimination

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 24, 2016

  

  Yellow Springs Police Sergeant Naomi Penrod has filed a charge of employment discrimination against the Village of Yellow Springs.

• A civil rights milestone, 50 years on

  By Megan BachmanDecember 1, 2011

  

  Fifty years ago this month, African-American villager Paul Graham walked into Lewis Gegner’s barbershop on Xenia Avenue, sat down in his barber chair and asked for a haircut. “I can’t cut your hair,” the white barbershop owner replied, according to Graham’s account. “I don’t know how. That’s all there is to it.” That day Graham […]