The Cuyahoga Community College Greater Cleveland Community Studies and Oral History Center was established in the late 1980s to study and preserve the history of Cleveland, Ohio. The Center formed under the leadership of Edward Miggins, a history professor at Tri-C who was previously involved in the Cleveland Public Library's Cleveland Heritage Program and the Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum. The Center conducted two oral history projects and produced a film under Miggins' leadership.
The first oral history project, the New Immigrant Study, collected the experiences of people who had recently immigrated to Cleveland. As well as interviewing people from other countries, the project also sought to document the experiences of those who had moved to Cleveland from other parts of the United States. The second oral history project, the Aging and Ethnicity Study, detailed the experiences of the elderly in Cleveland's various ethnic communities. The film,
The Cuyahoga Community College Greater Cleveland Community Studies and Oral History Center Records, 1980-2005 and undated, consist of audio recordings, interview transcripts, and video recordings.
This collection is of value to researchers studying immigrant life in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Those seeking first-hand accounts of immigrant life in Cleveland and northeast Ohio will find the oral history portions of the collection particularly helpful. Researchers studying the immigrant experience through Ellis Island will also find value in the collection. Immigrants from South America, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Russia, and Asia are represented in the collection. Also of interest is a script for the play
This collection is arranged in three series.
The researcher should also consult MS 5176 Cleveland Heritage Program Records; and MS 5175 Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Records.
The processing of this collection was made possible through a gift by Gina Hamister. Processed by Jessica Marra in 2014.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 5177 Cuyahoga Community College Greater Cleveland Community Studies and Oral History Center Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of Edward Miggins in 2002.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.