Stop #7 (Location 18 on map) - Call & Post Newspaper

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The Call and Post covers local news in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, along with arts and entertainment in its CP2 (Call & Post 2nd edition) tabloid. The Call and Post was inducted into the first class of the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame in August 2013 at the Watjen Auditorium at Cleveland State University the Call and Post was established around 1928 by a group of people including local African American inventor Garrett A. Morgan, as a merger between the Cleveland Call and the Cleveland Post, two newspapers that had been serving the African American community since 1916 and 1920 respectively. The Call and Post provided extensive coverage of the social and religious life in the African American community and was known to feature sensational coverage of violence on its front page.   After moving to new offices in 1959, the Call and Post began to publish with offset printing. It was one of the first newspapers in Ohio to use the new technique.  The Call and Post filed for bankruptcy in 1995 but was purchased in 1998 by boxing promoter Don King.  The Columbus branch of the publication was established and was under the direction of Amos Lynch the Columbus Call and Post was THE African American Newspaper outlet that captured all of the local happenings throughout the city in the African American Community.  Amos Lynch was editor of the Call and Post throughout its 33-year existence. After the Call and Post’s parent company ran into financial trouble, Lynch left the paper and started the Columbus Post. Lynch helped start three different Columbus newspapers: the Ohio Sentinel in 1949; the Call and Post, a local edition of a popular black paper in Cleveland in 1962; and the Columbus Post in 1995. 

Alpha Hospital and Professional Building was built in 1920. Located on the corner of 17th and Long Street, this hospital was established by Dr. William Method and Dr. R. M. Tribbitt for the African American community. It cost $23,000 to erect and functioned as a private institution.  Alpha Building, site of the first African American-owned hospital in Columbus, is among the black community’s most historic structures. In recent years, the building has been home to a bookstore and two coffee shops, early signs of a nascent commercial revival in the Bronzeville District of Columbus. 

Second Baptist Church is the oldest Black Baptist Church in Columbus, Ohio.  Second Baptist is the Mother Church of ten Baptist churches:  Russell Street Baptist, Hildreth, Memorial Tenth Avenue, Shiloh, Union Grove, Bethany, Oakley, Good Shepherd, Greater Love.  However, three of these churches no longer exist under the name initially established.  Additionally, there are three new names Pilgrim, Union and Beulah. In 1847, as the United States suffered under the burning issue of slavery, Second Baptist’s Pastor, James P. Poindexter, became an articulate and enthusiastic voice against slavery within our community.  Second Baptist continues to meet the needs of the church congregation and community as it continues to spread the gospel and serve the Columbus area.   

Fannie Cook's Home for Colored Girls opened August 8, 1917 and was incorporated October 28, 1918. The home was established to promote the social, moral, intellectual, industrial and religious advancement for both colored girls and women. It later became the Mary Price Home for Girls in 1924.  It was located at 248 N 17th Street.  

Listed on the Columbus Register of Historic Places, the Macon is a landmark associated with jazz history in the historic Bronzeville District. The Macon provided regular lodging for African American musicians booked for shows in and around Columbus in the early to mid-20th century. It was transformed from a hotel to a club and lounge after World War II. The Macon was listed in the 1957 Green Book, the guide published for African-American travelers to help navigate a segregated America.

The building features stylized cornices and window corbels ornamenting the façade of the commercial brick structure.

In the early spring of 1889, Rt. Rev. John Ambrose Watterson, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Columbus, convinced there was a need for a church and school in the northeastern section of the city, secured a suitable site on North Twentieth Street and Hildreth Avenue on April 9, 1889. Rev. Thomas J. O’Reilly was appointed on August 24, 1889, to organize the new parish which was placed under the patronage of Saint Dominic. The Sisters of Notre Dame donated an altar and other necessary furnishings for the Chapel and St. Dominic’s parochial school opened under the guidance of the sisters of St. Joseph on September 9, 1889. The hopes and dreams of Father O’Reilly and the people of the parish were realized on Sunday November 26, 1916, with the dedication of their new church, which we worship in today. In 1928 Father Thomas J. O’Reilly died and was succeeded by the Reverent Father Albert Fisher.   To appreciate St. Dominic Catholic Church fully, one must also come to see and understand the long and arduous struggle of the African American people to be allowed a place in the Catholic Church. Although today, St. Dominic Church is primarily a community of African American Catholics, it should be noted that up until 1943 the congregation was largely Irish and Italian. The first record of Black families being registered at St. Dominic is not found until late 1943. With the merger of St. Cyprian’s and St. Dominic’s parishes on March 25, 1957, the population of Black Catholics began to rise.  St. Dominics Parish continues to serve the Near East side community of Bronzeville to this day.