| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Sol Kahn Papers
| | | | Creator: | Kahn, Sol B. | | | | Dates: | 1907-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Sol Kahn (born 1911) was an immigrant from France who worked for the Cuyahoga County Relief Administration and later the Cleveland Board of Education's Bureau of Attendance. He was the Board's representative to Juvenile Court and was assigned to the Collinwood district, handling attendance and security problems during the 1960s riots. The collection consists of histories of the Cleveland Public Schools and Bureau of Attendance, writings and memorabilia of Kahn, records and clippings relating to the Schools and the Bureau, documents from Juvenile Court and the Cleveland Boys School, reports and clippings on juvenile delinquency, and a Collinwood High scrapbook (1960s-1970s) with flyers from Black Unity House and the National Association for the Advancement of White People, and a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. | | | | Call #: | MS 3978 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Kahn, Sol, b. 1911. | Collinwood High School. Cleveland (Ohio) | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School attendance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Attendance officers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Schools. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Community Action for Youth Records
| | | | Creator: | Community Action for Youth | | | | Dates: | 1958-1967 | | | | Abstract: | Community Action for Youth was a social services agency in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, created through a federal matching grant from the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime in 1963. Its goals included the reduction of juvenile delinquency and poverty through increased social services, educational opportunities, and job training. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, financial documents, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, proposals, reports, speeches, and statements. | | | | Call #: | MS 5227 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Community Action for Youth (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poverty -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social conditions. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | S. Sterling McMillan Papers
| | | | Creator: | McMillan, S. Sterling | | | | Dates: | 1962-1970 | | | | Abstract: | S. Sterling McMillan was an economist, professor at Western Reserve University, and founder of Predicasts. McMillan authored several books and was involved with numerous philanthropic and social welfare organizations in Cleveland, Ohio, serving as a trustee and financial consultant. The collection consists of meeting agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial statements, minutes, newsletters and reports of various social agencies in which McMillan had an interest. The bulk of the material pertains to the Cleveland Welfare Federation, but the collection also includes material of the Cleveland Homemaker Service Association, Cleveland Council on World Affairs, the Golden Age Center of Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation, Health Fund of Greater Cleveland, and Sagamore Hills Children's Psychiatric Hospital Citizens' Advisory Committee. | | | | Call #: | MS 4523 | | | | Extent: | 1.75 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Welfare Federation of Cleveland -- Archives. | Cleveland Homemaker Service -- Archives. | Cleveland Council on World Affairs -- Archives. | Golden Age Center of Cleveland -- Archives. | Health Fund of Greater Cleveland -- Archives. | Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation -- Archives. | Sagamore Hills Children's Psychiatric Hospital. Citizens' Advisory Committee -- Archives. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Federation for Community Planning Records
| | | | Creator: | Federation for Community Planning | | | | Dates: | 1913-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Federation for Community Planning was founded in 1913 as the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, to coordinate funding for the numerous charities in Cleveland, Ohio. It merged with the Welfare Council of Cleveland in 1917 to form the Cleveland Welfare Federation. In 1972 it became the Federation for Community Planning. By 1919 it had given up solicitation of funds and by 1966 their allocation also, evolving into a specialized community planning agency. Today, the organization is known as the Center for Community Solutions. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings and publications of the Federation for Community Planning, the Welfare Federation, the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy and various bodies allied to these organizations, files of the executive directors Edward D. Lynde and William T. McCullough, speech texts, television and radio scripts, personnel files and news releases. | | | | Call #: | MS 3788 | | | | Extent: | 64.00 linear feet (52 containers and 13 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Federation for Community Planning. | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Care and hygiene. | Adoption -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Transients, Relief of -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Foster home care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Illegitimate children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Alcoholism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Family social work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Japanese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. | Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charity organization. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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