Articles About African-American culture and history

• The Briar Patch, episode 1: into the thicket

  By YS News StaffAugust 3, 2021

  

  The Briar Patch, episode 1: Into the Thicket, audio from WCSU FM 88.9

• Abecedary by Mills Lawn first-graders inaugurates Gaunt award

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 7, 2019

  

  For those who don’t know much about the life of Wheeling Gaunt, the Yellow Springs man who bought his own freedom from slavery and for whom Gaunt Park is named, there’s a handy resource out there — and it was written by Mills Lawn’s 2017–18 first-grade class.

• Alyce Earl Jenkins— Recognized for service, teaching

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  “Sometimes when I’m feeling down, I come in here and think, well, I did make a contribution to different communities at different times,” Alyce Earl Jenkins said in an interview last week. That’s quite an understatement.

• A people’s history of Yellow Springs

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 22, 2018

  

  About 50 and counting local residents, whose lives span three centuries, are represented in an ambitious effort to create a social history, a people’s history, of African Americans in Yellow Springs, organized by The 365 Project.

• Hamilton honored as ‘Great Ohioan’

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 20, 2018

  

  Local children’s author Virginia Hamilton was given Great Ohioan Award by the Ohio Statehouse this week.

• Virginia in Ohio

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 30, 2017

  

  A crowd of local students and community members converged on the Yellow Springs library last Wednesday, March 22, for the dedication of a historical marker for renowned author Virginia Hamilton, who grew up and lived most of her life in Yellow Springs.

• Story in stitches

  By YS News StaffMarch 2, 2017

  

  A special quilt in honor of Faith Patterson was unveiled at the Yellow Springs library on Feb. 22.

• Stories of amazing African Americans

  By Audrey HackettFebruary 16, 2017

  

  Learn about notable African Americans from the Miami Valley in a local history talk at the YS Community Library this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 6–7:30 p.m. Presented by the National Afro-American Museum in Wilberforce.

• Busting out

  By Web AdminFebruary 2, 2017

  

  The YS Arts Council and the YS Historical Society presented “Beyond Flour and Sugar: The Wheeling Gaunt Legacy and Yellow Springs In the Civil War Era” on Friday, Jan. 20, at Antioch University Midwest.

• Building an historic collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 17, 2016

  

  The opening of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in September followed more than a century of efforts to recognize formally in our nation’s Capital the contributions of black Americans in the making, building, growth and life of this country.