by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Feb 25, 2016 | Civil Rights in the 20th Century
By Mary Manning, Ph.D., 2015-16 Local History Corps AmeriCorps Member Examining the history of Oberlin’s barber shops means addressing a situation in which overt discrimination was standard practice, far into the twentieth century and throughout the United States. In...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 1, 2015 | Oberlin Heritage Center Collections
by Eileen Telegdy, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer I am Eileen Telegdy and in October of 2014 I retired, sold my home and moved to a condo in Oberlin. I responded to an ad Liz Schultz, the Museum Education and Tour Coordinator of the Oberlin Heritage Center, placed...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jun 12, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first “Juneteenth” – June 19, 1865 – a day which has come to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. ...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 13, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent November 1864 – 150 years ago this month – saw a curious spectacle in the American Civil War. After Union General William Sherman captured the city of Atlanta from Confederate General John Bell Hood,...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 25, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The party was such a success that it would make the local paper. Fifty guests crowded into the house on South Water Street (present day Park Street) – among them the Mayor of Oberlin, Civil War veterans,...
