A new exhibit has just opened at the Arms Family Museum in Youngstown showcasing the city's African American community. The ...
One potential obstacle to tracing African-American lineage is slavery, an institution that broke family bonds and made record keeping nearly impossible. Because African-American slaves were ...
According to the 1850 U.S. census, there were 90 free African Americans living in the Mahoning Valley - of this number, 37 ...