Fourteenth Street Community Center, Portsmouth, Ohio

ID: 828 ~ Source: Scioto Historical Collection, Center for Public History, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Creator: Vaughn Wascovich

This file appears in: Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"

Front Entrance to the Fourteenth Street Community Center.

This file appears in: Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"

Fourteenth Street Community Center: "The Heart of the North End"

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

Today’s Fourteenth Street Community Center has its origins in a vibrant black civic movement of the 1920s during the Era of Jim Crow, when Portsmouth, Ohio, like much of the United States was…