2 10 37 https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/9c177ee2cc7fcad59335bb25d4d4c679.jpeg 87270856e32519735145b1608355776b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WWI Individuals Person An individual. Birth Date 1892 Birthplace Atlanta, GA Death Date 1963 Military Service Details Training Camp at Ft. Des Moines IA. Service: 366 Infantry to discharge. Camp Dodge, IA; Camp Upton, NJ; AEF; Camp Gordon, Ga; Alsace; Meuse-Argonne; Lorraine. Served overseas as 1st Lt. June 15, 1918 to February 28, 1919. Honorably discharged April 19, 1919. Occupation In Atlanta, he worked at various jobs (laborer, bellboy at the Winecoff, teacher at St. Paul’s Episcopal School, and life insurance salesman) before his enlistment in the military. After the Armistice, Wimbish was the proprietor of a theater, The Idle Hour, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the law firm of Temple, Wimbish, and McLendon (later Temple and Wimbish). He specialized in property and criminal law, civil rights, and minority group cases. He was named Assistant State's Attorney (a position he held until 1931.) He also held a commission in the Officers Reserve Corp. In 1938, he switched to the Democratic Party but was unsuccessful in his race for Illinois State Senate. That same year, he married again to Odessa Ireland. From 1940 to 1944 he served as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago. In 1942, he was elected to the Illinois Senate from the Third District. Wimbish sponsored the Fair Employment Practices bill during his first term (The bill would not become law until 1961). He was re-elected in 1946 and 1950. He served as Democratic Committeeman from the Third Ward from 1948 to 1952. In 1958, he was elected Trustee of the Sanitary District, the position he held at his death. Education He attended Atlanta public schools and Atlanta University. In 1917, he was one of 20 Atlanta University men commissioned as officers (including his brother 2nd Lt. Hugh H. Wimbish). He received an A.B. degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1914. In 1923, he came to Chicago and entered Northwestern University Law School. He graduated with an LLB degree in 1925. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1927. Spouse Vivian Clayton, Odessa Ireland Biographical Text His father, Christopher C. Wimbish Sr., was a mail carrier and active in the Republican party. In 1898, he was appointed federal surveyor of customs for Atlanta by President William McKinley. His mother, Maggie Baker, was a teacher and principal of the E. P. Johnson night school. GPS 33.7483889,-84.3704269 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Christopher C. Wimbish Jr. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/043ebff73efe2910a88afc36221966ed.jpg 27f712977169ac6c0f153c12a812c410 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Colored man is no slacker Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Colored man is no slacker," Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. <<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb999233-047b-5d10-e040-e00a18066bb9">http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bb999233-047b-5d10-e040-e00a18066bb9</a>>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/ecc0669e0e33ffb58c884deac716da0a.jpg 7c39cedecf1249f9af4808d866cd2b44 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Colored Stevedores Unloading Piles From a Ship at Brest. No Stevedore Regiment in France Excel in Workmanship These Stalwart Men of the Race. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived A pictorial history of the Negro in the great World War, 1917-1918. <<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.010002632340">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/emu.010002632340</a>>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/525dd0309d569f9985e93226f14efea9.jpg b115891e074b5b09e65dc1159f0540b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Crisis (July 1917) Description An account of the resource From the beginning of the war to its close, The Crisis published editorials, articles, and photographs related to the service of African American troops stationed at home and abroad. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Harris, Lorenzo. “The Crisis: July 1917.” The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, vol. 14, no. 3, July 1917. Retrieved from The Modernist Journals Project <http://modjourn.org/>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/ac8af301fa9c27b5fcbe3a74c3206991.jpg 53f31f5f051a7c121f47637c29266e56 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Home Again. Oh, How Joyful! Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Home again. Oh, how joyful!” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Digital Collections. <<a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-7bbc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-7bbc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99</a>>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/010e684e7ab6ec82a3d141b8e288fd25.jpg e32b0d247c0072f31cf98e752c2fdc8d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource How They Did it Over There. Colored troops of the 505th Engineers that returned on S.S. Roma showing how they used the cold steel on the Huns Description An account of the resource "How They Did it Over There. Colored troops of the 505th Engineers that returned on S.S. Roma showing how they used the cold steel on the Huns." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "How They Did it Over There. Colored troops of the 505th Engineers that returned on S.S. Roma showing how they used the cold steel on the Huns." Photograph. Retrieved from the National Archives and Records Administration, <<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26431348">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26431348</a>>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/0ad789b9916fc61d0359065c5e1f27b4.jpeg adf2a634c4f0e14a7385f1bc0ee3bfd9 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WWI Individuals Person An individual. Birth Date 1895 Birthplace Atlanta, GA Death Date 1933 Military Service Details Training camp at Ft. Des Moines IA. Service: 368 Infantry to discharge. Stationed in Camp Meade, MD; Camp Merritt, NJ; AEF; Camp Upton, NY, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA. Meuse-Argonne; Served overseas as 2nd Lt. June 15, 1918 to February 11, 1919; Honorary discharge February 28, 1919. Hospitalized at Veterans Hospital in Tuskegee, AL for illness caused by exposure to poison gas during military service; apparently, this was cause of death. Occupation He opened a dental practice in Cleveland, Ohio. Like his father, he was active in the Republican party. He served as the sergeant-at-arms at the 1924 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Education He attended Atlanta public schools and Atlanta University. In 1917, Wimbish was one of 20 Atlanta University men commissioned as officers (including his brother, 1st Lt. Christopher C. Wimbish). Graduated from Meharry Dental College in Nashville, TN. Biographical Text His father, Christopher C. Wimbish Sr., was a mail carrier and active in the Republican party. In 1898, he was appointed federal surveyor of customs for Atlanta by President William McKinley. His mother, Maggie Baker, was a teacher and principal of the E. P. Johnson night school. GPS 33.7483659,-84.3703978 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hugh Henry Wimbish https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/38ffb8b45537c0528c6d4e53f80152fc.jpg 4ff8c88181c0bba4adab9c5db6ce45a1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service Description An account of the resource “Colored Troops - Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service.” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived “Colored Troops - Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service.” Photograph. Retrieved from the National Archives and Records Administration, <<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26431464">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26431464</a>>. https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/c650a6328f27083d02c465eddc7a81aa.jpg 6b5eb33dc1ceaaadc3717a916223ed2b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WWI Individuals Person An individual. Birth Date Oct 6, 1893 Death Date Dec 6, 1960 Military Service Details Engineer. Enlisted in Detroit, Michigan. Biographical Text He is descended from the family of Rev. James Tate, a mid-nineteenth century business leader in Atlanta. GPS 33.7485435,-84.3705871 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource James Edward Tate https://oaklandcemeteryhistory.org/files/original/114e1d96a324be736fef9b47636b0cc9.jpg 1b83abadee2286c3465bb02b4706bcdb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Making a water tank. Description An account of the resource Atlanta University. Class in Carpentry. Making a Water Tank. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived “Atlanta University. Class in Carpentry. Making a Water Tank.” Photograph. Retrieved from the National Archives and Records Administration, <<a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26425166">https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26425166</a>>.