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Title	Stewart's Drug Store Photographs
Subject	Civil Liberties Business and Labor Ohio Women African American Ohioans Stewart, Ella P. (Ella Phillips), 1893-1987 Stores & shops Drugstores
Place	Toledo (Ohio) Lucas County (Ohio)
Description	Four photographs document Stewart's Drug Store in Toledo, Ohio. The drug store, which was opened in 1922 by Ella and William Stewart, was the first African American-owned drug store in Toledo. The photographs measure 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). Ella Nora Phillips Stewart (1893-1987) was born in Stringtown, West Virginia. She attended high school at the age of twelve at Storer College - the only school in the region that accepted black students. Stewart wished to attend the University of Pittsburgh's School of Pharmacy but was met with discrimination when she was told admissions were closed. She persisted however, and although segregated from other students, she graduated with high marks passing her state exam in 1916, to become the first licensed African-American female pharmacist in Pennsylvania and one of the earliest practicing African-American female pharmacists in the country. Phillips married William Stewart, also a graduate of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh in 1920, and moved to Youngstown, Ohio. She learned that there were no black-owned drugstores in Toledo, Ohio, so she traveled to Toledo, and in 1922 opened the Stewart's Pharmacy. Ella became involved in the Enterprise Charity Club, a black women's philanthropic club which provided assistance to Toledo families. Through her work with this club, Stewart developed a reputation of leadership that led to her eventual election in 1944 as President of the Ohio Association of Colored Women and from 1948 to 1952, as President of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Stewart was also involved in local affairs as a member of the Toledo League of Women Voters (the first African-American member), the League of City Mothers, the Toledo Council of Churches, and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Because of her outstanding leadership, Stewart was chosen in 1952 to be a delegate to the International Conference of Women of the World. In 1963 she was appointed Commissioner for the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and continued her travels throughout the world. For Stewart, her most cherished achievement and honor was the naming of a Toledo elementary school after her; a school she visited often, serving as a role model to its young students.
Date of Original	1920 - 1960 circa
Collection	Ella P. Stewart Papers http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms0203.html
Source	Audiovisual material MS-203 Center for Archival Collections--Bowling Green State University
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1876_3621671_002
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1876_3621671_002.tif
Image Height	1479
Image Width	2094
File Size	919.794 KB

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