http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;smode%3Dsimple;subject%3DAfrican%20Americans%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland%20--%20Societies,%20etc.;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;smode=simple;subject=African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.;subject-join=exact Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5019.xml Barristers' Wives was a group committed to community and social concerns that was founded in 1956 by a group of seventeen African American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The group initially met in October 1956 to support the campaign of Cleveland's first African American mayoral candidate, Alexander Martin, and continued to meet throughout the 1950s and 1960s to support other African American politicians. The women also participated in charitable causes to benefit the United Negro College Fund, the NAACP, the Urban League, and other organizations. The Barristers' Wives ceased holding formal meetings in October 2008, but its membership plans to continue meeting informally. The collection consists of scrapbooks and programs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5019.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3595.xml The Cleveland Tuskeegee Alumni Association was formed in 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a fund raising body for Tuskegee Institute. The collection consists of certificates, scrapbooks, minutes, correspondence, printed items, newspaper clippings, alumni constitutions, and biographical sketches. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3595.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4367.xml Eloise R. Cunningham (born 1895) was a Cleveland, Ohio, social worker active in a variety of African-American educational and alumni associations. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, financial reports, and brochures for various Afro-American educational and alumni associations, including the Cleveland Tuskegee Alumni Association, the Inter-Alumni Council of Greater Cleveland, and the Cleveland drive for the United Negro College Fund. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4367.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4494.xml Flora Johnson (b. 1906) was active in the African American community in Cleveland, Ohio, including the following organizations: Cleveland Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, Glenville Garden Club, Forest City Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Antioch Baptist Church, Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged, Four-O'Clock Garden Club, League of Women Voters, the 25th Ward Republican Club, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. The collection consists of programs, annual reports, membership information, correspondence, and historical and biographical information relating to the organizations in which Flora Johnson was actively involved. This collection also contains a small file containing material reflecting the involvement of the donor, Loraine Huston, in the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4494.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5229.xml The Universal Negro Improvement Association is an international African American fraternal and philanthropic organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. Originally designed to promote Pan-Africanism, it later developed into a radical political organization which advocated the repatriation of blacks to Africa. The UNIA, Inc. split into separate factions following the deportation of Marcus Garvey to Jamaica in 1927, and in 1929 Garvey officially denounced the UNIA, Inc. operating out of New York and established the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, August 1929 of the World ("UNIA-ACL 1929"). This latter organization has been headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940-1949 and from 1975 to the present (2014). In 2007, both UNIA organizations held a unification conference and have operated as a single organization since that time. The collection consists of agendas, articles of incorporation, by-laws, charts, constitutions, correspondence, a death certificate, dues... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5229.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT