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Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History

Jenkins, Rebecca D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429214056

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
This paper explores the untold history of the Black community of Portsmouth and Scioto County, Ohio. It provides a brief overview of the national and state level political and cultural context in which this story is told. This project is limited in both scope and in resources, and as such, while some information about Scioto County’s early history in relation to Black citizens is included for context, this research is focused mainly on the struggle for integration of the Portsmouth City School system in 1885, and the larger political and cultural context in which these events took place. This story not only highlights the struggles that members of the Black community in the area have faced, but also demonstrates the abundance of Black history in Scioto County, and the causes of the erasure of this history. The folklore of the county itself, like the Floodwall Mural project’s artistic summary, omits the rich Black history of the county. This paper argues the historical importance of the Black community to this particular place, a cultural and racial crossroads in the nineteenth century, and being a larger conversation about the role of Black citizens in Scioto County history. Additionally, this paper purposes to situate Portsmouth in the broader social and political culture of the nineteenth century.
Nicole Jackson, PhD. (Advisor)
Rebecca Mancuso, PhD. (Committee Member)
47 p.
African American Studies; American History; Ethnic Studies; History
Black History; History; Ohio history; Portsmouth, Ohio; African American History; cultural history; Scioto; Scioto County; local history; public history; whitewashing;

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  • Jenkins, R. D. (2015). Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429214056

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jenkins, Rebecca. Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429214056.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jenkins, Rebecca. "Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429214056

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2015, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History by Rebecca D Jenkins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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