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Ohio was a destination for escaped African Americans slaves before the Civil War. In the early 1870s, the Society of Friends members actively helped former black slaves in their search of freedom. The state was important in the operation of the Underground Railroad .
Pike County Airport Location of Jackson Township in Pike County Coordinates: 39°8′5″N 82°52′59″W / 39.13472°N 82.88306°W / 39.13472; -82
Pike County is a county located in the Appalachian (southern) region of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census , the population was 27,088. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Waverly , [ 3 ] and the county is named for explorer Zebulon Pike .
The list below displays each majority-Black county (or county-equivalent) in the fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It includes the county's total population, the number of Black people in the county, and the percentage of people in the county who are Black as of the 2020 Census. The table is initially sorted by the ...
The following is a list of United States cities, towns and unincorporated areas (Census Designated Places) in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is non-Hispanic African American or Black alone, according to data from the 2000 Census.
Two Ohio police officers were indicted by a grand jury in the death of a Black man whom officers restrained with a knee near his neck while he cried "I can't breathe," the county prosecutor ...
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe" as they pinned him to the floor of a bar ...
Waverly is a village in, and the county seat of, Pike County, Ohio, United States, located about 14 miles (23 km) south of Chillicothe. [3] The population was 4,165 at the 2020 census . The town was formed in 1829, as the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal along the west bank of the Scioto River brought new growth to the area.