Lethia Cousins Fleming directed national campaign efforts among African American women for three Republican presidential candidates, and led the National Association of Republican Colored Women (1920) and women’s activities in Cleveland’s 11th Ward for almost a decade (1920s).
Ohio civic activist and political strategist
The first African-American woman judge in Ohio and the first to sit on the Ohio Industrial Commission, the highest state position ever held by an African-American woman at that time.
The first African-American woman elected to the Cleveland Board of Education
One of the first African American female ministers in Cleveland and the founder of Highlight FBH “Fire Baptized Holiness” Church in the 1950s
Ohio teacher, administrator and community activist, and the first African-American assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools
American advocate for peace and human rights
African-American community activist, columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and the first woman to serve on the board of the Cleveland Transit System
African-American civil rights lawyer and civic activist
A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”