City and NYA Officials at Ground Breaking Ceremony for Fourteenth Street Community Center

ID: 833 ~ Source: "City and NYA Officials at Ceremony for New Youth Center," Portsmouth Times 5 November 1939, p.24. ~ Date: 5 November 1939

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…