A black-owned movie theater, McGuffey Heights Theater, operated on the Sharon Line in the late 1940s

A black-owned movie theater, McGuffey Heights Theater, operated on the Sharon Line in the late 1940s and early '50s.
The only black-owned flower shop in the city, Goldies Flower Shoppe on Belmont, was started in 1952 and is still open today.
A black-owned traveling grocery store, operated from a refrigerated truck, once existed in the city.
Dandridge Nursing Home was the first black-owned nursing home in the city, opening in 1959.
Attorney William Higgins became the city's first black law director in 1972.
The first minority-owned private school was the Kiddie Haven Pre-school, which opened in 1974.
The first black parochial school was Calvary Christian Academy, opened in 1976.
Sources: "Celebrate '96 an Ethnic Encyclopedia: The Peopling of the Mahoning Valley," and "A Rediscovery of Part of the Past."