Our Mission

The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the conservation of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home and provision of public space that serves as…

Life & Times

African American Wilson Bruce Evans was born free in the Piedmont region of North Carolina in 1824. His mother was Fanny Evans, a free woman of color who owned property…

Visit the Evans Home

We working hard to be restore the Evans home in order to open it up to the public for visits by 2023. We look forward to maintaining progress on the…

Staff

Carol Lasser, Emerita Professor of History, Oberlin College, serves as the Manager of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society. Carol has lived in Oberlin since 1980.  For nearly four…

Meet Our Board

The Founding Board of Trustees is composed of descendants of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah Jane Leary Evans, members of the Oberlin’s African American genealogy and history community members of…

Donate to Evans HHS

The Evans Home Historical Society was established to preserve the legacy African-Americans made to the Oberlin community during some of the most chaotic times in American history. The Society operates…