{"id":23971,"date":"2014-02-06T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=23971"},"modified":"2014-02-06T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T15:42:33","slug":"celebrating-black-history-month-cincinnatis-ted-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2014\/02\/celebrating-black-history-month-cincinnatis-ted-berry\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Black History Month-Cincinnati&apos;s Ted Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By: \u00a0Kevin Grace<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1932-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1932-1.jpg\" alt=\"Theodore Berry\" height=\"236\" width=\"324\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1932-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1932-1-155x112.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1932-1-261x190.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a>With a grant awarded by the National Archives and Records Administration a few years ago, we were able to process our Theodore M. Berry Papers, a collection of nearly 200 boxes that documented the life and career of Ted Berry, UC alum, first African-American mayor of Cincinnati, and a national figure in the Civil Rights Movement.\u00a0 Communities around the nation are celebrating Black History Month in February, and on Tuesday <i>The Ledger-Independent <\/i>in <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1959-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1959-2.jpg\" alt=\"Berry Backers Flyer\" height=\"225\" width=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1959-2.jpg 225w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1959-2-155x155.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Berry-1959-2-190x190.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Maysville, Kentucky ran a very nice article about Berry, based in large part on the website that was created for the grant project.\u00a0 Written for the newspaper by Marla Toncray, the article was picked up by Dawn Fuller in UC\u2019s Public Information office.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to have a look at the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/maysville-online.com\/news\/local\/theodore-m-berry-rise-from-poverty-to-politics\/article_867ef0e1-2ebe-5c1c-91c1-ed3a399a37f4.html\">http:\/\/maysville-online.com\/news\/local\/theodore-m-berry-rise-from-poverty-to-politics\/article_867ef0e1-2ebe-5c1c-91c1-ed3a399a37f4.html<\/a>.\u00a0 To learn more about ARB\u2019s holdings, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/libraries\/arb\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/libraries\/arb\/index.html<\/a>, call us at 513.556.1959, or email us at <a href=\"mailto:archives@ucmail.uc.edu\">archives@ucmail.uc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: \u00a0Kevin Grace With a grant awarded by the National Archives and Records Administration a few years ago, we were able to process our Theodore M. Berry Papers, a collection of nearly 200 boxes that documented the life and career &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2014\/02\/celebrating-black-history-month-cincinnatis-ted-berry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[285,534,53,58],"class_list":["post-23971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uclibraries","tag-berry-project","tag-black-history-month","tag-cincinnati-history","tag-urban-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}