AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Slaves escape to Ohio in 1849
Lucy Bagby, also known as Lucinda Johnson, last person to be returned to slavery under Fugitive Slave Act, 1861
Area's African Americans celebrate Emancipation Day, 1867
The Campbell Guards, a militia company, is organized, 1880
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows celebrates in 1887
Lincoln School (numerous pages and pictures)
Emancipation Day, 1891 and more on the event
Atkinson club formed by African American Republicans in Wheeling, 1888 (Supporting George Atkinson)
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows Meets, 1896
1889 Sketch of educator J. McHenry Jones in the Cleveland Gazette.
Hearts of Gold, by J. McHenry Jones, a novel of African-American life written and published in Wheeling in 1896
Emancipation Day, 1896; James Lynch is featured speaker
Speech by J. McHenry Jones seconding nomination of George Atkinson for governor, 1896.
J. McHenry Jones returns from 1897 Odd Fellows convention in England
Emancipation Day, 1909
1912 Annual Thanksgiving Meeting of GUOOF
Race riot in Beech Bottom, WV, 1921
William 'Bill' Turner, Wheeling's first African American policeman
All of Wheeling's African American pastors resign within a year, 1926
Knights of Pythias construct building, 1928
Pythian Building in 2010
Pythian Building in 2010
Pythian Building in 2010
Pythian Building in 2010
Pythian Building Cornerstone
Society notes and other Wheeling items in the Baltimore Afro American, 1926-1946
Chu Berry, 1908-1941, tenor sax great -- Cover of a Chu Berry music book
Chu Berry's obituary in the Baltimore Afro-American
James S. White, community leader
Men of the Beau Brummel Organization, 1958
Beau Brummel Ladies, ca. 1960
Service provided by the staff of the Ohio County Public Library in partnership with and funded in part by the Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation.