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•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.[X]
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. (9)
•Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (6)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (5)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. (5)
•African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. (4)
•Karamu House. (4)
•Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. (2)
•African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. (2)
•Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. (2)
•Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) (2)
•Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. (2)
•Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) (2)
•Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. (2)
•Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. (2)
•Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. (2)
•National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. (2)
•Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Rural-urban migration -- United States. (2)
•School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. (2)
•Silver, Dorothy, 1929- (2)
•Silver, Reuben, 1925- (2)
•Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Stokes, Carl. (2)
•Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. (2)
•Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•African American Unitarian Universalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American authors -- Correspondence. (1)
•African American authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American social workers. (1)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. (1)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•African American women -- United States. (1)
•African American women public relations personnel. (1)
•African American women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. (1)
•African Americans -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. (1)
•African Americans -- Relations with Russians. (1)
•African Americans. (1)
•Afro-American artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American folk art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. (1)
•Authors, American -- Correspondence. (1)
•Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- (1)
•Biggins, Nick. (1)
•Black Folk Art in Cleveland. (1)
•Black Muslims -- Doctrines. (1)
•Black nationalism -- United States. (1)
•Blankenship, Wellington, 1894-1972. (1)
•Blue family (1)
•Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. (1)
•Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery -- Exhibitions. (1)
•Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. (1)
•Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Civil rights -- United States. (1)
•Civil rights movements -- United States. (1)
•Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. (1)
•Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. (1)
•Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. (1)
•Cleveland Transit System. (1)
•Cleveland: NOW! (1)
•Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. (1)
•Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Collective labor agreements -- Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Collins, Benjamin. (1)
•Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Congress of Racial Equality (1)
•Congress of Racial Equality. Cleveland Chapter (1)
•Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Darr, Jane Lee, 1925-2006 (1)
•Darr, Jane Lee. (1)
•Davenport, Peggy. (1)
•Davis family. (1)
•Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. (1)
•Dobbins, Helen. (1)
•Eddy Road Street Club. (1)
•Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. (1)
•Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Fashion shows -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Forbes, George L., 1931- (1)
•Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Freedom Fighters of Ohio (1)
•Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•George, Zelma Watson (1)
•Gilpin Players. (1)
•Glenco Enterprises, Inc. (1)
•Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum (1)
•Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Hall, Ruby. (1)
•Harmon, J.D. (1)
•Horton, James, 1934- (1)
•Hough Area Development Corporation. (1)
•Hough Area Partners in Progress. (1)
•Humanist Fellowship of Liberation (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. (1)
•Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Institute of Man and Science. (1)
•Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Karamu Foundation. (1)
•Labor movement -- United States. (1)
•Lard, Pearkine. (1)
•Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Corporation. (1)
•Moon family. (1)
•Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- (1)
•Moon, Joseph Herbert. (1)
•Moon, Leah. (1)
•Moon, Mollie Lewis. (1)
•Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. (1)
•Moss, Jim. (1)
•Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (1)
•National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- History. (1)
•National Urban League. (1)
•Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•North Coast Village Steering Committee. (1)
•Oral histories. (1)
•Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Porter, Roderick Boyd. (1)
•Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Recreation and juvenile delinquency. (1)
•Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Sermons, American -- African American authors. (1)
•Sissle, Noble, 1889- (1)
•Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Social work with African Americans. (1)
•Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Sweet, Dovie Davis. (1)
•Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Towns, Mickey. (1)
•Trade-unions -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Trade-unions -- Service industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Unitarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•United Freedom Movement (1)
•United States -- Race relations. (1)
•Wagner, Albert. (1)
•Welch, Marcella. (1)
•William Bingham Foundation. (1)
•Women -- Social conditions. (1)
•Women -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. (1)
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1Title:  Black Folk Art in Cleveland Records     
 Creator:  Black Folk Art in Cleveland 
 Dates:  1983-1984 
 Abstract:  The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland's African American folk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins, Perkine Lard, Marcella Welch, Nick Biggins, and J.D. Harmon. The collection consists of notebooks containing festivals and exhibition notes, a catalog, posters, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. It includes some biographical information about the participating artists, planning notes for the exhibit festival, and an exhibition catalog and poster. 
 Call #:  MS 4640 
 Extent:  0.11 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Davenport, Peggy. | Wagner, Albert. | Hall, Ruby. | Dobbins, Helen. | Moss, Jim. | Towns, Mickey. | Collins, Benjamin. | Lard, Pearkine. | Welch, Marcella. | Biggins, Nick. | Harmon, J.D. | Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery -- Exhibitions. | Black Folk Art in Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American folk art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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2Title:  Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Papers     
 Creator:  Jelliffe, Russell and Rowena 
 Dates:  1914-1991 
 Abstract:  Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe were social workers who in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club of Cleveland, Ohio, founded the Neighborhood Association, popularly known as the Playhouse Settlement, in 1915. Founded primarily to aid African Americans who had migrated to Cleveland from the rural South, Playhouse Settlement offered the usual social services, but gained note for its dramatic and artistic programs. In 1927 the Jelliffes acquired property which was remodeled as a theater and named the Karamu Theater. In 1941, the Settlement was renamed Karamu House. The Jelliffes shared the directorship of Karamu House until their retirement in 1963, after which they served as trustees of the Karamu Foundation. Russell Jelliffe was also an active member of the Urban League, the Cleveland Community Relations Council on Race Relations, the executive committee of the local branch of the NAACP, and the Board of the Cleveland Council of Human Relations. He was involved with the Group Work Council of the Welfare Federation and was a trustee of Oberlin College and the Cleveland Civil Liberties Union. Rowena Jelliffe was involved in the NAACP, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the Urban League, the National Theatre Conference, the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Guidance Center, and the Board of Directors of the American National Theatre and Academy. Both the Jelliffes received numerous honors and awards. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, journals, a diary, date books, speeches, schedules, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, Karamu Board of Trustee files, Karamu Foundation files, deeds, publications, blueprints, playscripts, programming information, subject files, memoranda, drawings, manuscripts, research papers and studies, certificates, awards, and scrapbooks. In addition to the personal papers of the Jelliffes, this collection contains a significant collection of the records of Karamu House, including initial negotiations with the Second Presbyterian Men's Club concerning the founding of Neighborhood Association, administrative files, histories, materials concerning the New Building Campaign of the 1940s, correspondence with Harold T. Clark, programming files, materials concerning the search for a new executive director, playscripts, publications, and scrapbooks. Also included in the collection are letters, notes, and a poem written by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's play, Sermon. Also included are the records of the Karumu Foundation, 1948-1977. 
 Call #:  MS 4737 
 Extent:  12.71 linear feet (14 containers, 3 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. | Karamu House. | Karamu Foundation. | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rural-urban migration -- United States. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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3Title:  Karamu House Records     
 Creator:  Karamu House 
 Dates:  1914-1979 
 Abstract:  Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing African American population, in order to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. The Playhouse Settlement was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927. By 1941, the entire settlement had taken the name Karamu House. The Dumas Dramatic Club was created to support and encourage interest and activities in the performing arts. In 1922, the theater troupe's name was changed to The Gilpin Players in honor of noted African American actor Charles Gilpin. During the 1920s and 1930s, works by many accomplished playwrights were produced at Karamu, including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill, and Langston Hughes, whose career was launched at Karamu. In 1939, the house was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding was not completed until 1949. The Jelliffes' mission of an interracial institution continued until the late 1960s, when, under the leadership of new director Kenneth Snipes, Karamu's mission became one of promoting African-American theater and plays specifically about the African-American experience. During this time a professional troupe of actors was formed. In 1982, Karamu formally returned to its original mission as an interracial organization. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, building construction applications, historical accounts, minutes, records of the Board of Trustees, reports, proposals, publications, financial records, contribution records, correspondence, play scripts and related information, announcements of events, programs, memoranda, date books, guest books, newspaper clippings, subject files, ledgers, scrapbooks, and student enrollment cards. Notable correspondents include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Hubert Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Phillip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, Carter G. Woodson, Eliot Ness, Walter White, Marian Anderson, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Harry E. Davis, Harry C. Smith, and Jane Edna Hunter. The majority of the papers date from the period after World War II, particularly the 1950s and 1960s. 
 Call #:  MS 4606 
 Extent:  79.21 linear feet (92 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Karamu House. | Gilpin Players. | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rural-urban migration -- United States. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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4Title:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver Papers     
 Creator:  Silver, Reuben and Dorothy 
 Dates:  1949-1975 
 Abstract:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver were active in Karamu House, a performing arts center and theater, founded in 1915 as an interracial social settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. During their tenure, the Silvers were instrumental in presenting works by African American authors such as Langston Hughes and LeRoi Jones, as well as classics from the American theater. Urban unrest in the community surrounding Karamu and the growing popularity of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s forced a reconsideration of Karamu's goals as they related to interracial theater. During this period, Karamu endured major personnel and financial crises. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, newspaper clippings, publications, playscripts, schedules, programs, and handbills. Most of the material contained in this collection is concerned with Karamu House and the Silvers' roles there as Theater Director and Theater Assistant from 1955-1976. 
 Call #:  MS 4533 
 Extent:  0.80 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- | Karamu House. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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5Title:  Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs     
 Creator:  George, Dr. Zelma Watson 
 Dates:  1881-1994 
 Abstract:  Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills. 
 Call #:  MS 5415 
 Extent:  55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes) 
 Subjects:  George, Zelma Watson | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- United States. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
 
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6Title:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver Papers, Series II     
 Creator:  Silver, Reuben and Dorothy 
 Dates:  1915-1991 
 Abstract:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver were active in Karamu House, a performing arts center and theater, founded in 1915 as an interracial social settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. During their tenure, the Silvers were instrumental in presenting works by African American authors such as Langston Hughes and LeRoi Jones, as well as classics from the American theater. Urban unrest in the community surrounding Karamu and the growing popularity of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s forced a reconsideration of Karamu's goals as they related to interracial theater. During this period, Karamu endured major personnel and financial crises. The collection consists of audition notices, correspondence, index card notes for a dissertation on Karamu House, Karamu House 75th Anniversary materials, a program manuscript, magazines, newsletters, newspaper clippings, obituaries, play reviews, press releases, theater and workshop programs, minutes, reports, cast and crew lists, play posters, program schedules, and memorabilia. 
 Call #:  MS 4643 
 Extent:  0.70 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- | Karamu House. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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7Title:  Bertha Blue Family Papers     
 Creator:  Blue, Bertha Family 
 Dates:  1908-1989 
 Abstract:  Bertha Blue was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of Bertha Blue's art course notebook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, St. John African Methodist Episcopal newsletters, scrapbooks, and Jane Lee Darr's resume and writings. The collection also contains newspaper clippings on Blue's friend, Noble Sissle. 
 Call #:  MS 4630 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. | Darr, Jane Lee. | Sissle, Noble, 1889- | St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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8Title:  Jane Lee Darr Papers     
 Creator:  Darr, Jane Lee 
 Dates:  1920-1998 
 Abstract:  Jane Lee Darr (1925-2006) was the adopted daughter of Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963). Bertha Blue was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of artwork and biographies of Bertha Blue by Jane Lee Darr and correspondence and research files maintained by Darr on the Blue family. 
 Call #:  MS 5184 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Blue family | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Darr, Jane Lee, 1925-2006 | Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio)
 
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9Title:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project Records     
 Creator:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project 
 Dates:  1995-1996 
 Abstract:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project was conducted in 1995-1996 by the African American Archives Auxiliary Youth Advisory Council and supported by the African American Archives Auxiliary of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The project was funded with grants from the Cleveland Indians and Zapis Communications. Interviews with nineteen African American individuals of diverse backgrounds from the northeastern Ohio area were conducted by high school students Jamar Doyle, Tiffany Haddon, and Amy Worthy. The collection consists of an overall report on the project by coordinator Patricia A. Miles Ashford, individual reports by the student interviewers, and transcripts of the interviews. Those interviewed include Leon Bibb, William F. Boyd, Ernestine Brown, William Grace, Anthony Gray, Kenny Gray, Lomax Gray, Floyd Hoiston, Angeline Jeter, Samuel Jethroe, John D. McClindon, Jr., Louis Naylor, Harry Robinson, Charles Sallee, Jr., Glen Shumate, Harold Thomas, Owen Lynn Tolliver, Jr., and Ernest Williams. 
 Call #:  MS 4746 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
 
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10Title:  Wellington Blankenship Writings     
 Creator:  Blankenship, Wellington 
 Dates:  1965-1970 
 Abstract:  Wellington Blankenship was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American Muslim who wrote several unpublished manuscripts denouncing Christianity and various aspects of American culture. the collection consists of manuscripts of Blankenship's writings. The collection serves as an excellent example of the views held by Black Muslims in the 1960s. 
 Call #:  MS 4374 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Blankenship, Wellington, 1894-1972. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Black Muslims -- Doctrines. | Black nationalism -- United States.
 
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11Title:  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Branch Records     
 Creator:  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cleveland Branch 
 Dates:  1922-1969 
 Abstract:  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a social and political action organization founded in 1912 as a Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the NAACP. Its purpose is to oppose racial inequalities in civil and political rights. The collection consists of reports, minutes, office files, financial records, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, news releases and insurance policies. 
 Call #:  MS 3520 
 Extent:  26.40 linear feet (70 containers) 
 Subjects:  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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12Title:  Former Junior Federation Records     
 Creator:  Former Junior Federation 
 Dates:  1927-1982 
 Abstract:  The Former Junior Federation (f. 1927) was an African American women's social club constituted of the former members of the Junior Federation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally called the Gertrude Fisher Club after the founder who molded a group of youngsters into an organization that gathered in each other's homes. The aims of the club were to instill an understanding of the body of culture and thought in the world, to train women to become more efficient club members and better citizens, and to promote service and philanthropy as well as social and cultural interests. In the 1950s they became members of the Council of Colored Women and renamed themselves the Junior Girls Federation. By 1965 they had again changed their name, this time to the Former Junior Federation, but continued their social, civic and friendly activities. The collection consists of a constitution, bylaws, membership rosters, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia. 
 Call #:  MS 4235 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Social conditions. | Women -- Societies and clubs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs.
 
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13Title:  Russell Howard Davis Papers     
 Creator:  Davis, Russell Howard 
 Dates:  1897-1977 
 Abstract:  Russell Howard Davis (1897-1976) was an educator, community activist, historian, and author of the first comprehensive history of African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio. Davis drew from his brother Harry's unfinished manuscript on Blacks in Cleveland and published it in two volumes, Memorable Negroes in Cleveland's Past (1969) and Black Americans in Cleveland (1974). The collection consists of family records and histories, correspondence, organizational records and notes, manuscripts by Davis and other authors, and miscellaneous printed materials and newspaper clippings. 
 Call #:  MS 4031 
 Extent:  10.81 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. | Davis family. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- History. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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14Title:  Congress of Racial Equality, Cleveland Chapter Records     
 Creator:  Congress of Racial Equality, Cleveland Chapter 
 Dates:  1960-1969 
 Abstract:  The Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was chartered in March 1963. As a chapter of the national organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942, the Cleveland Chapter of CORE has used direct action to bring about dignity, freedom, justice, and equality for the oppressed and dispossessed people of Cleveland. While primarily working in the African American community, CORE has worked for the political, economic, and social changes necessary to improve the conditions that cause racial inequality and poverty. The collection consists of agendas, brochures, budgets, constitutions, correspondence, event notices, fact sheets, financial statements, flyers, guides, histories, lists, membership cards, minutes, news releases, newspaper clippings, notes, outlines, policy statements, programs, proposals, publications, reports, speeches, and tickets. 
 Call #:  MS 5174 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. | Congress of Racial Equality | Congress of Racial Equality. Cleveland Chapter | Freedom Fighters of Ohio | United Freedom Movement
 
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15Title:  Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Records     
 Creator:  Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum 
 Dates:  1971-1990 
 Abstract:  The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 to prepare exhibits for the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration in Cleveland. The exhibits were to depict contributions from Cleveland's ethnic groups to the multicultural society of the area. Following the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, the museum established a permanent office and exhibit gallery in the Old Arcade in downtown Cleveland. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to document the experiences of immigrants through oral histories, photographs, and other collected material. The collection consists of audio recordings, video recordings, interview transcripts, ledgers, financial documents, membership lists, board meeting minutes, correspondence, presentation materials, notes, catalog cards, exhibit materials, and museum holdings. 
 Call #:  MS 5175 
 Extent:  19.42 linear feet (21 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 1 film canister) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. | Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration | Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum | Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Oral histories. | Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland
 
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16Title:  Humanist Fellowship of Liberation Records     
 Creator:  Humanist Fellowship of Liberation 
 Dates:  1965-1972 
 Abstract:  The Humanist Fellowship of Liberation was an African American Unitarian Universalist church formed in 1970 by former members of the First Unitarian Church, which had moved from Cleveland to Shaker Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, constitution, financial accounts, correspondence and other records of the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation; and records of the Black Affairs Council, Inc., the Black Unitarian Universalist Caucus, and the Unitarian Universalist Association. 
 Call #:  MS 3592 
 Extent:  1.80 linear feet (5 containers) 
 Subjects:  Humanist Fellowship of Liberation (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American Unitarian Universalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Unitarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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17Title:  Hough Area Development Corporation Records     
 Creator:  Hough Area Development Corporation 
 Dates:  1967-1985 
 Abstract:  The Hough Area Development Corporation (f. 1967) was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by DeForest Brown in conjunction with African American professionals and neighborhood leaders in the wake of the Hough riots by DeForest Brown to aid in bringing economic prosperity to Cleveland's Hough neighborhood. Dedicated to African American self-determination, the group initially met in secret in order to prevent competition for dollars and outside attempts to control it. The group promoted African American business entrepreneurship and better housing. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, clippings, legal papers, financial records, reports, and the working papers of the corporation's offices. 
 Call #:  MS 4222 
 Extent:  27.30 linear feet (28 containers and 1 oversize volume) 
 Subjects:  Hough Area Development Corporation. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
 
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18Title:  Reverend Wade H. and Mrs. Ruth B. McKinney Papers     
 Creator:  McKinney, Wade H. and Ruth B. 
 Dates:  1898-1966 
 Abstract:  Reverend Wade H. McKinney was pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (1928-1962). He and his wife, Ruth Berry McKinney, were active in numerous church and civic organizations and in the affairs of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, sermons, speeches, "Thot-O-Grams," financial, printed and miscellaneous papers, and papers relating to Antioch Baptist Church. 
 Call #:  MS 3549 
 Extent:  6.50 linear feet (16 containers and 1 oversize package) 
 Subjects:  African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sermons, American -- African American authors. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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19Title:  Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design 
 Dates:  1924-1979 
 Abstract:  The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of certificates, proclamations and awards related to the education, business, and philanthropic interests of Amanda Wicker, the school's owner. 
 Call #:  MS 4605 
 Extent:  0.10 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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20Title:  Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Records     
 Creator:  Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design 
 Dates:  1942-1983 
 Abstract:  The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of style show programs; also newspaper clippings, and miscellany. The style show programs include much advertising for Cleveland Afro-American businesses. 
 Call #:  MS 4490 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fashion shows -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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