Remembering
In Hickman, Kentucky, a recently-discharged Black soldier named Charles Lewis was lynched in uniform in December 1918, just weeks after the end of World War I. Mr. Lewis was standing on the street when a white police officer began harassing him and claimed he fit the description of a robbery suspect. When Mr. Lewis insisted […]
A New England meteorologist earned a place in the history books as a trailblazer in the U.S. Military during World War II, but Captain Wallace Patillo Reed might be one of the most important meteorologists you’ve never heard of.”Nobody knows what a trailblazer he is,” said Dr. William Ryan, a former professor of climate change […]
Share Your Memories and“Imagine a Healed Future” Who remembers the old times? Playing Swimming Picnicking Hiking Biking Camping Dancing Dining Games Music Starting in 2023, we are recording oral histories, gathering newspaper accounts, and scanning old photos to share on the Green Book Cleveland website. Browse to see what we’ve learned already. We hope this […]
Sitting in the silt, not far from the Statue of Liberty, within the backwaters of the Arthur Kill, is a slowly decaying tribute to African American sailors of World War II. The vessel is a patrol class of submarine chaser considered too small and among too many to be christened with a name by the U.S. […]
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