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The Toni Morrison Society launched the "Bench by the Side of the Road" project in 2006, on the occasion of novelist Toni Morrison's 75th birthday. The society places benches at sites important to African American history. The project developed in…

This blog, created by Oberlin resident Laura Paxton, featured pictures of the painted rocks on Tappan Square. The blog launched in 2008 and ended in 2016. This link goes to an archived version of the site from 2016.

An interactive guide to Oberlin College's architecture and monuments from its founding to the present. This site provides historical and current information on
on the college's structures and includes photos, drawings, descriptive information, and…

Photo of a person drawing the Oberlin College logo in red chalk on a sidewalk.

Rhiannon Giddens graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in opera in x. While in college she became interested in banjo and she became a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The banjo is an instrument originally brought to…

Frances Walker-Slocum earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory in 1945 and had a successful career as a pianist whose performances always featured the work of Black composers. She became the first Black woman granted tenure at Oberlin…

This digital project explores the contributions of art history professor and curator Ellen Johnson to Oberlin's Department of Art History and its art museum, as well as to the American and European contemporary art world. Johnson received both a BA…

The World War II memorial garden commemorates the 75 Oberlin college alumni who were killed in World War II. Unusual for a war memorial, the Oberlin memorial lists the names of all alumni who died in the war--including Masura Nakamura, who fought for…