YS Early History
Residences
Businesses
Places
People
100
In the 1850s who decided to divide and sell land they own to establish Yellow Springs
Who is William Mills?
100
On what street is Wheeling Gaunt's house?
What is Walnut Street?
100
Wheeling Gaunt became known for his investments in what?
What is real estate?
100

First Baptist Church, founded in 1863, was the first church founded by African Americans in Yellow Springs. What is the name of the second church formed three years later in 1866?

What is Central Chapel A.M.E. Church?
100
Who was the barber whose shop became the center of protests in the 1960s when he refused to cut the hair of Black men?
Who is Lewis Gegner?
200
When Ohio was formed in 1803 how was money used to discourage African Americans from entering?
What is requiring them to pay a bond (insurance; of $500)?
200
Who is Omar Circle named for?
Who is Omar Robinson?
200
Where was Snickerdoodles located?
What is in King's Yard?
200
What school opened in the 1870s and became the main elementary school when Ohio schools desegrgated
What is the Union School?
200
Who was the owner of Snickerdoodles children's clothing store in King's Yard?
Who Locskley Orr?
300
During the time of slavery what secret organization in Ohio attracted Black people to the state?
The Underground Railroad
300
The apartment building at High and Davis streets was once a ______?
A colored school
300
Before 1940 where were Black people attending movies at the Little Art Theater required to sit?
What is at the back rows of the theater?
300
Tinni Lawson owned the land where what Antioch College building is now located?
What is the Antioch College Library?
300
This African American man was police chief in Yellow Springs beginning in the 1960s
Who is Jim McKee?
400
The group of formerly enslaved people who were brought to Yellow Springs in the 1860s by the son of the family that had owned them in Virginia became known as the_________?
What is the Conway Colony?
400
In the 1940s and 1950s why African Americans settle in surrounding communities in addition to Yellow Springs?
What is because of segregation practices in those communities?
400
What street had many African American businesses in the 1960s and 1970s?
What is Dayton Street?
400
Limestone Ave is also known as______?
What is Jim McKee Way?
400
This African American man sold his real estate assets in Carrollton, Kentucky and moved to Yellow Springs in the 1860s where he resumed investing in real estate
Who was Wheeling Gaunt?
500
In what decade were Ohio Schools required to desegregate?
What is the 1880s?
500
Why was Omar Circle developed and initially occupied primarily by African Americans?
What is because they often could not get loans to build homes in other parts of the Village?
500
What restaurant, owned by African Americans, was a meeting place for people of all races from the 1940s through the 1960s?
What is Com's
500
Wheeling Gaunt's land in the southern part of the Village is now ______?
What is Gaunt Park?
500

She attended Antioch College in the 1940s and has a center named for her on the Antioch campus.

Who is Coretta Scott King?
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