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A Call to Remember: Teaching Genocide Awareness Month Special thanks to our guest contributors at the Ohio Holocaust and Genocide Memorial and Education Commission (OHGMEC) for writing this month's blog on teaching Genocide Awareness Month. Genocide Awareness Month is observed annually in April to raise awareness about genocide, honor victims, and promote prevention efforts. Throughout this month, various organizations, educational institutions, and communities in Ohio and worldwide host events to shed light on past atrocities such as the Holocaust and the Cambodian and Armenian genocides. T ..read more

Join me as I visit the sites in the Ohio History Connection network! This month's road trip took me to the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor in Youngstown. The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (YHCIL), known locally as the "Steel Museum," documents the rise and fall of the steel industry in Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley. Exhibits combine artifacts, videotaped interviews and full-scale recreations of the places where steelworkers lived and worked. The museum features hundreds of photographs representing labor, immigration and urban history. Objects ..read more

Oral History Project: 1974 Tornadoes Home » Oral History Project: 1974 Tornadoes Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1974 Tornado that forever changed our landscape and our lives.  Help preserve this history by sharing your stories via an oral history interview.  In collaboration with WYSO, the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is working to gather stories of Wilberforce, both before, during and, most importantly, after the devastation.  Please complete the questionnaire below to get things started. Questions?  Call 937-376-4944, extension 0 or ema ..read more

By Svetlana Harlan, Community Engagement Coordinator March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), an annual recognition of transgender people and a celebration of their contributions to the LGBTQ+ community and to the larger world. TDOV was founded by Michigan-based activist Rachel Crandall in 2009, who created the day of appreciation in response to a lack of recognition for transgender people within the LGBTQ+ community. Crandall hoped that TDOV would provide an opportunity to refocus the dialogue around transgender people and identities and to highlight the lived experi ..read more

By Valerie Boyer, School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator Lady Fanm Goumen, a Creole woman, was known as many different people throughout her life. She’s said to have been born in the summer between 1807 and 1815 in Franklin, Louisiana. Keep in mind that chattel slavery was a time of not seeing enslaved persons as people, but rather property, so we don’t necessarily have birth certificates at the time to confirm this. After having enough of some of her master’s practices, she snuck into the back of a cargo wagon in 1845, which ended up stopping in Montgomery, Alabama. It is along t ..read more

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Community Scanning Day: 1974 Tornadoes Home » March 23, 2024 from 10am until 3pm at the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center1350 Brush Row Road, Wilberforce, Ohio  45384 Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1974 Tornado that forever changed our landscape and our lives. Join us for a community scanning day and help preserve this history when you bring your photographs of the area from before, during, and after the disaster. Our preservation professionals will assist in scanning the images and make them available to our community and future generations through digital ..read more

Spend a day exploring the historic buildings and beautiful gardens of a former utopian settlement. By Jill Sell Tidy little bird’s nests decorate the doorways of buildings in Historic Zoar Village. The birds sense safety, even if many of the former residences, schools and businesses are now viewed by many enthusiastic tourists. The 200 Zoarites who formed the utopian settlement were pacifists and German Separatists who made Tuscarawas County their communal home from 1817 to 1898. These families did not originally intend to establish a communal society, where all things were shared, including ..read more

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