Portrait of William E. Haley

ID: 832 ~ Source: "Haley Veteran in Church Life," Portsmouth Daily Times (12 April 1946): 17, from the Historic Portsmouth Newspaper Collection, Center for Public History Archives, Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. ~ Date: 12 April 1946

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

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…