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| 1930-1939: The Depression Years |
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"The Ku Klux Klan was an active force in
Akron. Such Negroes as may have hoped to get a college education locally may well have
thought twice because of the backlash such action would trigger."
~George Knepper, New lamps for Old~ |
| 1930 |
 MacNolia Cox,
13 years old, won first place in Akron Area Spelling BeeJames Turner, Robert Burton,
Stanley Junius and Edith Delaney attended the University of Akron
J.C. Wade opened a
dance studio
New Black Organizations
- Rubber City Lodge No. 233 of the I.B.P.O.E. of W.
- American Legion John Fulton Post No. 272
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Beta Beta Chapter
- Negro Twenty-five Year Club
- Council of Negro Women
- Negro Art Club
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Rhine River Post No. 3618
- Frontiers of America
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| 1939 |
654 Negro children attended high school |
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