by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Apr 16, 2026 | History Highlights, Women's Rights
Oberlin Women in Medicine During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discrimination against women attempting to pursue most career paths was an unfortunate reality, and the medical field was no exception. Despite these barriers, women of the Oberlin and Cleveland...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Mar 22, 2016 | Abolition, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher, and trustee Oberlin’s history is chock-full of people who have gained national and international recognition for their achievements, like Antoinette Brown (Blackwell) – the first female...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 17, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee Frances (“Fanny”) Jackson came to Oberlin in 1860 with a dream – a dream “to get an education and to teach my people”, she said. “This idea was deep in...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Apr 2, 2014 | Abolition, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent In 1850, a young African American couple from Oberlin, acclaimed as up-and-coming spokespersons against slavery and racial injustice, gazed with optimism towards a future of bright hope for themselves, their...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 21, 2013 | Abolition, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The winter of 1856 was a particularly harsh one – harsh enough that the Ohio River froze solid in January, something that only happened every few years. When it did happen, enslaved Americans on the...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jun 19, 2013 | Abolition, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent Did you know that Oberlin was the scene of a series of heated public debates featuring renowned abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass and their colleagues in the 1840s? Well, it was, and if...
