A Legacy in Story

Akron Stories collects, preserves, and celebrates the stories of Akron’s rubber workers and their descendants. The stories have been organized into the following categories:

Akron Life • History • The Work • Products • People & Identity

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Every Girl's Dream

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Picket Signs

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The KKK

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Paid Less

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Black Jobs

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Deaf Workers

Thomas Kot is the grandson of Philip Alfred Heupel Sr., a 1918 graduate of Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., which at the time was the only college in the world for the deaf.

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Still Segregated

Ophelia High’s parents moved to Akron from Middlefield, Georgia, and lived on a farm in East Akron.

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Pineapple Belts

Rosalie Cavett’s father, Edmund A. Buzzelli, Sr., started working at the BF Goodrich company in 1943 as an operator in the hand cutting department for miscellaneous rubber stocks.