Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Karamu House. |
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| | • | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. |
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| | • | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. |
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| | • | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. |
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| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. |
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| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Rural-urban migration -- United States. |
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| | • | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. |
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| | • | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- |
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| | • | Silver, Reuben, 1925- |
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| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl. |
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| | • | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. |
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| | • | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | African American Unitarian Universalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American authors -- Correspondence. |
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| | • | African American authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American social workers. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | African American women -- United States. |
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| | • | African American women public relations personnel. |
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| | • | African American women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. |
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| | • | African Americans. |
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| | • | Afro-American artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Afro-American folk art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. |
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| | • | Authors, American -- Correspondence. |
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| | • | Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- |
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| | • | Biggins, Nick. |
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| | • | Black Folk Art in Cleveland. |
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| | • | Black Muslims -- Doctrines. |
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| | • | Black nationalism -- United States. |
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| | • | Blankenship, Wellington, 1894-1972. |
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| | • | Blue family |
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| | • | Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. |
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| | • | Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery -- Exhibitions. |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. |
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| | • | Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights -- United States. |
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| | • | Civil rights movements -- United States. |
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| | • | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. |
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| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. |
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| | • | Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. |
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| | • | Cleveland Transit System. |
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| | • | Cleveland: NOW! |
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| | • | Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. |
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| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Collins, Benjamin. |
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| | • | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Congress of Racial Equality |
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| | • | Congress of Racial Equality. Cleveland Chapter |
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| | • | Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Darr, Jane Lee, 1925-2006 |
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| | • | Darr, Jane Lee. |
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| | • | Davenport, Peggy. |
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| | • | Davis family. |
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| | • | Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. |
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| | • | Dobbins, Helen. |
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| | • | Eddy Road Street Club. |
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| | • | Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. |
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| | • | Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Fashion shows -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Forbes, George L., 1931- |
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| | • | Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Freedom Fighters of Ohio |
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| | • | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | George, Zelma Watson |
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| | • | Gilpin Players. |
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| | • | Glenco Enterprises, Inc. |
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| | • | Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum |
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| | • | Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Hall, Ruby. |
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| | • | Harmon, J.D. |
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| | • | Horton, James, 1934- |
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| | • | Hough Area Development Corporation. |
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| | • | Hough Area Partners in Progress. |
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| | • | Humanist Fellowship of Liberation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. |
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| | • | Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Institute of Man and Science. |
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| | • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Karamu Foundation. |
(1)
| | • | Labor movement -- United States. |
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| | • | Lard, Pearkine. |
(1)
| | • | Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Corporation. |
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| | • | Moon family. |
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| | • | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- |
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| | • | Moon, Joseph Herbert. |
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| | • | Moon, Leah. |
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| | • | Moon, Mollie Lewis. |
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| | • | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. |
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| | • | Moss, Jim. |
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| | • | Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
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| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- History. |
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| | • | National Urban League. |
(1)
| | • | Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | North Coast Village Steering Committee. |
(1)
| | • | Oral histories. |
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| | • | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Porter, Roderick Boyd. |
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| | • | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Recreation and juvenile delinquency. |
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| | • | Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Sermons, American -- African American authors. |
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| | • | Sissle, Noble, 1889- |
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| | • | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work with African Americans. |
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| | • | Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Sweet, Dovie Davis. |
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| | • | Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Towns, Mickey. |
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| | • | Trade-unions -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Trade-unions -- Service industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Unitarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | United Freedom Movement |
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| | • | United States -- Race relations. |
(1)
| | • | Wagner, Albert. |
(1)
| | • | Welch, Marcella. |
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| | • | William Bingham Foundation. |
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| | • | Women -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Women -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 21 | Title: | James Horton Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Horton, James | | | | Dates: | 1955-1982 | | | | Abstract: | James Horton was a business agent and organizer for the Building Service and Maintenance Union, Local 47, Cleveland, Ohio, who helped to unionize a number of nursing homes and served as a contract negotiator. Horton was also active in the Eddy Road Street Club, a neighborhood improvement association, and Ohio Boys Town. He was interested in political issues and wrote to a number of mayors, congressmen, and senators. The collection consists of correspondence relating to Horton's union activities, collective agreements which he helped to negotiate, material relating to the Eddy Road Street Club, letters from prominent public officials, and Horton's various awards and certificates of achievement. | | | | Call #: | MS 4306 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Horton, James, 1934- | Eddy Road Street Club. | Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Trade-unions -- Service industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Trade-unions -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 22 | Title: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1900-1954 | | | | Abstract: | The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1874 by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and located in various city neighborhoods, including Broadway and Central, Woodland, and Carver Park Estates. The collection consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed materials. The collection is primarily concerned with the Junior Board and includes material relating to its fund raising activities, the 75th anniversary celebration, and other activities. | | | | Call #: | MS 4259 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 23 | Title: | Charles Waddell Chesnutt Papers
| | | | Creator: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell | | | | Dates: | 1889-1932 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was a Cleveland, Ohio, court reporter, novelist and short story writer. He was the first African American novelist and short story writer to win recognition on a nationwide scale. The collection consists of correspondence, copies of speeches and writings, newspaper clippings, invitations, programs, photographs and other papers relating to Chesnutt's activities as a court reporter and writer. | | | | Call #: | MS 3370 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Authors, American -- Correspondence. | African American authors -- Correspondence. | Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 24 | Title: | Lolette and George Hanserd Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hanserd, Lolette and George | | | | Dates: | 1939-1984 | | | | Abstract: | George and Lolette Hanserd were well known in the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community for their professional contributions, respectively, in podiatry and social work. In 1952 Lolette began working for the Welfare Federation of Cleveland as a member of the Group Services Council. In 1965 she was named director of a four-year project to improve interracial and intercultural relations for the Federation, after which she became director of the Human Relations Department. In 1971 her position was expanded to include associate director of the Federation of Community Planning, the new name adopted by the Welfare Federation that same year. One year later she became the first black to be named social worker of the year by the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Lolette retired from the Federation in 1984. The collection consists of Lolette's professional papers from the Federation for Community Planning, as well as some personal papers of both Lolette and George. The collection pertains primarily to Lolette Hanserd's civic activities and, to a much lesser degree, to George Hanserd's medical career in Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4236 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with African Americans. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 25 | Title: | MS 5433 George Forbes Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | George Forbes | | | | Dates: | 1945-2014 | | | | Abstract: | George L. Forbes (b. 1931) was arguably the most powerful man in Cleveland politics during the 1970s and 1980s. His position as the President of Cleveland City Council from 1974-1989 was crucial in the relationships he formed with mayors Dennis Kucinich and George Voinovich which were sometimes contentious. He also used this prominent position to promote civil rights and minority-owned businesses. Forbes was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1931, coming to the Cleveland area in the 1950s to earn his degrees from Baldwin Wallace College in 1957 and the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 1961. A lawyer by profession, Forbes was admitted to both the Ohio and Federal Bars in 1962. In 1963 he was elected to Cleveland City Council, where he served for 27 years. He assisted Carl B. Stokes in his mayoral runs, helped to establish the 21st District Congressional Caucus to improve race relations within the Democratic party, and formed the first African-American law firm in Cleveland. He was also involved in a number of civic organizations, including the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he served as President from 1992-2012, The Urban League, The Council of Economic Opportunity, the Businessmen's Interracial Committee on Community Affairs, the John Harlan Law Club, and the National Association of Defense Lawyers for Criminal Cases. He was acquitted of bribery, extortion, and theft in office in 1979, has plead guilty to ethics violations in dealing with the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation in 2007, and was sanctioned by the Ohio Supreme Court in 2008, which put his law license in jeopardy. During his career he has advocated for the poor and minority groups. He has worked against racial discrimination within a number of organizations, including the Regional Transit Authority and the Cleveland Police Force, created a mandate that a minimum percentage of construction work within the city be done by minority contractors/workers, and battled to improve city schools. The collection consists of awards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, posters, research materials, reports, speeches, survey, and audiovisual recordings. | | | | Call #: | MS 5433 | | | | Extent: | 28.01 linear feet (31 containers, including one oversized container and one oversized folder) | | | | Subjects: | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Forbes, George L., 1931- | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 26 | Title: | Carl Stokes Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stokes, Carl | | | | Dates: | 1956-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-1967. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the political career of Carl B. Stokes, including his terms in the Ohio State legislature, his mayoral campaigns, and particularly his tenure as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection details the organization of the mayor's office, and illustrates the problems that Blacks in the vanguard of social and political progress faced, as well as the challenges faced by any urban leader in the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s. Key events in Stokes' administration are illustrated, including the Glenville Shootout, the hiring and resignation of Safety Director Gen. Ben Davis, the activities of the Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities, and Cleveland: NOW! The work of then City Council President James Stanton is represented, along with material relating to Stokes' brother Louis. Notable correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Robert F. Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, Cyrus Eaton, Edward Kennedy, George Forbes, Jesse Jackson, and Howard Metzenbaum. | | | | Call #: | MS 4370 | | | | Extent: | 104.51 linear feet (107 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Stokes, Carl. | Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. | Cleveland Transit System. | Cleveland: NOW! | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. | Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 27 | Title: | Dovie Davis Sweet Papers
| | | | Creator: | Sweet, Dovie Davis | | | | Dates: | 1935-1982 | | | | Abstract: | Dovie Davis Sweet was a primary teacher in the Cleveland Public Schools, author, and active member of the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. She wrote "Red light, green light", a children's book about Clevelander Garrett Morgan, and was active in many community groups. She helped organize the Glenville Area Community Council, Parkgate Avenue Street Club, East 111th Street Club, and the Retired Teachers' Union. She served as vice-president of the Cleveland Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and helped with its membership drive, Freedom Fund dinner, march on Washington, and discrimination surveys. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, files on the writing and promotion of "Red light, green light", clippings, and subject files, including those for the NAACP, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, Florida Club, Delta Sigma Theta Club, and St. John's A.M.E. Church. | | | | Call #: | MS 4204 | | | | Extent: | 1.70 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Sweet, Dovie Davis. | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 28 | Title: | Cleveland: NOW! Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland: NOW! | | | | Dates: | 1967-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Cleveland: NOW! was a multiracial joint public and private program for extensive urban renewal and revitalization in Cleveland, Ohio, created by Mayor Carl B. Stokes following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. The program planned to raise $1.5 billion over ten years. The first 2-year phase called for spending $177 million for projects in eight areas: neighborhood housing rehabilitation; accelerated urban renewal; the creation of 16,000 jobs; expansion of small business opportunities; city planning; health, welfare, and day care centers; summer recreation programs for youth; and the construction of Camp Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout of July 23, 1968, a gun battle between police and members of the Black Nationalists Organization of New Libya who obtained weapons with funds received indirectly from Cleveland: NOW! Stokes and the NOW! trustees were sued in 1970 by 8 policemen wounded in the shootout, but the suit was dismissed in 1977. Although Cleveland: NOW! met many of its initial goals, the organization ceased activities for the most part after 1970, and was formally dissolved in 1980. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, minutes, board of trustees records, correspondence, financial records, records of the major programs, publicity information, newspaper clippings, and proceedings of lawsuits. The collection pertains to a dramatic, multiracial attempt on a large scale to address and ameliorate a wide range of social ills by initial infusions of large amounts of money. The financial records and contributors correspondence contain detailed information for a possible demographic examination of contributors to the program. | | | | Call #: | MS 4501 | | | | Extent: | 3.80 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stokes, Carl. | Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. | Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. | Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation and juvenile delinquency. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. | Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 29 | Title: | Roderick Boyd Porter Papers
| | | | Creator: | Porter, Roderick Boyd | | | | Dates: | 1980-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Roderick Boyd Porter served as the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Archivist (1973-1985) and was active in neighborhood redevelopment and historic preservation in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. Porter also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Western Reserve Historical Society, as a trustee of the Cleveland Area Arts Council, and a member of the Rowfant Club. He was a member of the North Coast Village Steering Committee in the 1980s, which played a key role in the Lexington Village project and revitalization efforts in the Hough area community of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of planning and development documents, project reports, proposals, correspondence, minutes, memoranda, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and personal notes. The collection pertains to the revitalization of the Hough area, an inner city neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It illustrates the involvement of urban renewal and re-development organizations such as the William Bingham Foundation, North Coast Village Steering Committee, the Institute of Man and Science, Glenco, and the Hough Area Partners in Progress. | | | | Call #: | MS 4646 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Porter, Roderick Boyd. | William Bingham Foundation. | North Coast Village Steering Committee. | Glenco Enterprises, Inc. | Institute of Man and Science. | Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Corporation. | Hough Area Partners in Progress. | Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 30 | Title: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1875-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, settlement house founded in 1874 by members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It offered a full range of services and social activities, including an outreach program for delinquent boys. Its service area became the center of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of minutes, financial statements, reports, evaluations, club journals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, expense accounts, and records of the Women's Philanthropic Union. | | | | Call #: | MS 3526 | | | | Extent: | 5.90 linear feet (13 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 31 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1885-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The Henry Lee Moon family was a prominent twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, African American family involved in civil rights and community organizations. In 1912, Roddy K. Moon helped form the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and served as its founding president 1912-1916. He was also on the board of the Negro Welfare Association, supported the Phillis Wheatley Association, and in 1933 organized the Palmetto Club. His wife, Leah Anna Himes Moon, was a fifty-year member of the Cleveland Branch NAACP, and with her husband was a founding member of the Forest City Garden Club. Roddy and Leah Moon had three surviving children; Joseph Herbert, Ella Elizabeth, and Henry Lee. Ella Moon was a teacher, an active member of the Forest City Garden Club, and was married to Clyde Smith. Henry Lee Moon was a newspaper editor, press relations secretary for Tuskegee Institute (1926-1931), and worked for the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Moon, along with his future wife and other African Americans, traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for consultations concerning a government sponsored film project on the history of black America. From 1938-1944 he was race relations adviser for the Federal Public Housing Authority. He also worked as assistant director to the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was active with the NAACP, becoming its director of public relations in 1948-1960. He was the author of two books; Balance of Power: the Negro Vote (1948) and The Emerging Thought of W.E. B. Dubois (1972). His wife, Mollie Virgil Lewis Moon, was a pharmacist, and later worked as a social worker with the Department of Social Services in New York City. She was also a public relations executive, founder and chairman of the National Urban League Guild (1942-1962), and trustee and secretary of the National Urban League (1955-1962). After World War II, she became involved with the "brown-babies" of Germany campaign, which attempted to provide relief for orphaned or abandoned children of mixed African and European or American ancestry. The collection consists of booklets, cards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, letters, memorandum, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, pamphlets, proposals, speeches, telegrams, published and unpublished writings, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4823 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Joseph Herbert. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Labor movement -- United States. | African American women -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women public relations personnel. | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. | African American social workers. | United States -- Race relations.
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