Eugene E. Collins, Sr. (1935 – 2018) is remembered as a community leader and civil rights activist in Portsmouth for more than five decades. He was a 1955 graduate of PHS and shortly after graduating, he was employed as a crane operator in the blast furnace at the former Empire-Detroit Steel Corp. in New Boston. He was a member of Beulah Baptist Church, where he had served as past chairman of the trustee board. He held leadership positions in the local branch of the NAACP, the Portsmouth Inner City Development Corp., the Community Action Organization of Scioto County, and the Fourteenth Street Community Center. In July of 1964, Collins was one of the key organizers of the “wade-in” at the Terrace Club, which ultimately led to its integration and the end of Jim Crow in Portsmouth, Ohio.