African Americans -- Ohio -- Yellow Springs -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Matthews-Howard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-248
Abstract
Graduates of Wilberforce University, Rev. Wesley Matthews and his wife, Ruth "Pat" Matthews, were active in civil rights, church work, and community organizing in the Dayton, Yellow Springs, and Urbana, Ohio areas. After Rev. Matthews died in 1978, Pat Matthews remarried Wendell Howard, a Springfield pharmacist. Papers in this collection include business and personal correspondence from both families, records from a depression-era WPA education program in Clark County, family photographs, a...
Dates:
1908 - 1992
Found in:
Special Collections
Yellow Springs Civil Rights Demonstration Photographs (SC-71)
Collection
Identifier: SC-71
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 31 photographs relating to a demonstration that occurred in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1964. There are also copies of court cases that arose from the demonstration. The demonstration arose after a local barber (Lewis Gegner) refused to cut the hair of a black patron.
Dates:
1964
Found in:
Special Collections
