Feb. 8, 2026, 12:20 a.m. ET
Wendell P. Dabney’s 1926 book “Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens” is an invaluable resource of the city’s Black history.
Dabney was the editor and publisher of The Union, a weekly Black newspaper, with immense knowledge of Cincinnati’s Black communities.
He saw a need to record that history and compiled church notes, recollections and traditions into a book “setting forth the history and achievements of the colored people of Cincinnati,” Dabney wrote.
