Eleventh Street Community Center Opens

ID: 834 ~ Source: "Center Opens," Portsmouth Daily Times (3 January 1932). ~ Date: 3 January 1932

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

North End (Peerless) Luncheon Club opened the first community center on 11th Street on 1 January 1932.

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

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

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…