Subject | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
(8)
| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(7)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
(7)
| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(6)
| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(5)
| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(5)
| | • | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(4)
| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
(3)
| | • | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
(3)
| | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
(3)
| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. |
(3)
| | • | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(3)
| | • | Stokes, Carl. |
(3)
| | • | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. |
(2)
| | • | African American aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. |
(2)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. |
(2)
| | • | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. |
(2)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. |
(2)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. |
(2)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. |
(2)
| | • | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Forbes, George L., 1931- |
(2)
| | • | Gilpin Players. |
(2)
| | • | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. |
(2)
| | • | Horton, James, 1934- |
(2)
| | • | Hough Area Development Corporation. |
(2)
| | • | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. |
(2)
| | • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. |
(2)
| | • | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Karamu House. |
(2)
| | • | Rural-urban migration -- United States. |
(2)
| | • | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. |
(2)
| | • | Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. |
(2)
| | • | Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
(1)
| | • | Affirmative action programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American Unitarian Universalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American authors -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | African American authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American physicians -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | African American sailors -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | African American singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American social workers. |
(1)
| | • | African American soldiers -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
(1)
| | • | African American women -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | African American women public relations personnel. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Mortality -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Music. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Music. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. |
(1)
| | • | African Americans. |
(1)
| | • | Afro-American air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Afro-American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | American Cancer Society. |
(1)
| | • | American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. |
(1)
| | • | Authors, American -- Correspondence. |
(1)
| | • | Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Bands (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Baylor, Mary Jane. |
(1)
| | • | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- |
(1)
| | • | Black power -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Blythin, Edward, 1884-1958. |
(1)
| | • | Boycott -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
(1)
| | • | Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. |
(1)
| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. |
(1)
| | • | Businessmen's Interracial Committee on Community Affairs (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. |
(1)
| | • | Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(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)
| | • | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Civil rights -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Civil rights movements -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. |
(1)
| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. |
(1)
| | • | Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Economic aspects. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland Transit System. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland Women's Orchestra. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland: NOW! |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. |
(1)
| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Collective labor agreements -- Service industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(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)
| | • | Crosby Furniture Company. |
(1)
| | • | Crosby, Fred McClellan, 1928- |
(1)
| | • | Dance -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Dance companies -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Davis family. |
(1)
| | • | Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. |
(1)
| | • | Discrimination in employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. |
(1)
| | • | E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Eddy Road Street Club. |
(1)
| | • | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio) Auxiliary II. |
(1)
| | • | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). |
(1)
| | • | Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. |
(1)
| | • | Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Fashion shows -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Fast food restaurants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Forest City Hospital. |
(1)
| | • | Franchises (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Freedom Fighters of Ohio |
(1)
| | • | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Future Outlook League. |
(1)
| | • | Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Garvin, Charles Herbert, 1890-1968. |
(1)
| | • | George, Zelma Watson |
(1)
| | • | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Glenco Enterprises, Inc. |
(1)
| | • | Gospel music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Gospel musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. |
(1)
| | • | Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum |
(1)
| | • | Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Halle Bros. Co. |
(1)
| | • | Health planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(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)
| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Institute of Man and Science. |
(1)
| | • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Karamu Foundation. |
(1)
| | • | Knoxville College. |
(1)
| | • | Labor disputes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Labor movement -- United States. |
(1)
| | • | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | League Park Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- |
(1)
| | • | Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Lyons, Frank, 1894-1974. |
(1)
| | • | Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Corporation. |
(1)
| | • | McDonald's Corporation. |
(1)
| | • | McIntyre, Dianne. |
(1)
| | • | McIntyre, Dorothy Layne. |
(1)
| | • | Medicine. |
(1)
| | • | Minority business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(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)
| | • | Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963. |
(1)
| | • | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
(1)
| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- History. |
(1)
| | • | National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Cleveland Club. |
(1)
| | • | National Urban League. |
(1)
| | • | Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | North Coast Village Steering Committee. |
(1)
| | • | Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Nursing homes -- Ohio --Elyria. |
(1)
| | • | Operation Black Unity. |
(1)
| | • | Oral histories. |
(1)
| | • | Pennybacker, Albert M., ca. 1930- |
(1)
| | • | Picketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Political clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Porter, Roderick Boyd. |
(1)
| | • | Professional associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Recreation and juvenile delinquency. |
(1)
| | • | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Republican Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Retail trade -- Employees. |
(1)
| | • | Rural-urban migration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Sermons, American -- African American authors. |
(1)
| | • | Service industries workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. |
(1)
| | • | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. |
(1)
| | • | Social work with African Americans. |
(1)
| | • | Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Sociology. |
(1)
| | • | Sounds in Motion. |
(1)
| | • | Spiritual Five Singers. |
(1)
| | • | St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). |
(1)
| | • | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Sweet, Dovie Davis. |
(1)
| | • | Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Taylor family. |
(1)
| | • | Taylor, Arthur, 1903-1974. |
(1)
| | • | Taylor, Bruce C., 1942- |
(1)
| | • | Taylor, Howard Francis, 1939- |
(1)
| | • | Taylor, Murtis Howard. |
(1)
| | • | Trade-unions -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Trade-unions -- Service industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Traffic signs and signals. |
(1)
| | • | Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Unitarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | United Freedom Movement |
(1)
| | • | United States -- Race relations. |
(1)
| | • | United States. CSA/Office of Community Services. |
(1)
| | • | United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. |
(1)
| | • | Urban League of Cleveland -- Archives. |
(1)
| | • | Urban League of Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Water tunnels -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Accidents. |
(1)
| | • | William Bingham Foundation. |
(1)
| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
(1)
| | • | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Yarbrough family. |
(1)
| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. |
(1)
| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 41 | Title: | Arthur and Murtis Taylor Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Taylor, Arthur and Murtis Family | | | | Dates: | 1895-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Arthur and Murtis Taylor were community leaders active in Cleveland, Ohio, African American organizations. They both worked at Karamu House and Outhwaite Homes Housing Project. Arthur then became an insurance underwriter and Murtis became director of Mount Pleasant Community Center and coordinator of the Federation for Community Planning's Project on Aging. Their son Bruce was a biomedical engineer researching artificial arteries at Akron City Hospital. Their son Howard became associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University in 1969. The entire family was named Outstanding Family of the Year in 1968 by the Urban League. The collection includes biographical items, correspondence, clippings, writings by Murtis, Bruce, and especially, Howard F. Taylor, and miscellany, including a marriage license, programs and certificates. The collection pertains largely to the careers and community activities of a Cleveland Afro-American family and includes some materials on social work, sociology, and medicine. Included is Howard's dissertation: Balance and tension in the two-person group. | | | | Call #: | MS 4439 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Taylor family. | Taylor, Arthur, 1903-1974. | Taylor, Murtis Howard. | Taylor, Bruce C., 1942- | Taylor, Howard Francis, 1939- | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sociology.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 42 | Title: | Spiritual Five Singers Records
| | | | Creator: | Spiritual Five Singers | | | | Dates: | 1947-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Spiritual Five Singers were organized in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. The gospel music group emerged from the Golden Star Singers of York, Alabama, that performed in the late 1940s. The original members of the Spiritual Five were Johnny, Nathan, and Willie Yarbrough, Willie Samuels, and H.J. Wynn. The group performed in churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons. In 1975, the group began to sponsor an annual Cancer Gospel-Thon, benefiting the American Cancer Society. The collection consists of written histories, minutes, correspondence, programs, original compositions, newspaper clippings, certificates, and awards. | | | | Call #: | MS 4607 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Yarbrough family. | Spiritual Five Singers. | American Cancer Society. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Music. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Music. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gospel music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gospel musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 43 | Title: | George Forbes Papers
| | | | Creator: | Forbes, Geoge | | | | Dates: | 1966-1990 | | | | Abstract: | George L. Forbes (b. 1931) was arguably the most powerful man in Cleveland, Ohio, 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. Currently (as of May 2012), he is involved in the Freedom to Marry movement to end marriage discrimination against gay couples in Ohio and has resigned from the NAACP Presidency. George L. Forbes has also been embroiled in numerous controversies during his political life. 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 inner city schools. The collection consists of awards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, posters, research materials, speeches, and surveys. | | | | Call #: | MS 5136 | | | | Extent: | 2.81 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Forbes, George L., 1931- | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | 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 | | 44 | Title: | James Horton Papers
| | | | Creator: | Horton, James | | | | Dates: | 1955-1974 | | | | Abstract: | James Horton (b. 1934) was the business representative for the Building Service and Maintenance Union, Local 47, Cleveland, Ohio. He helped the union organize workers in several Cleveland hospitals and nursing homes. The collection consists of mimeograph letters from Local 47 of the Building Service and Maintenance Union to hospitals, nursing homes, other unions, and union members concerning meetings, strikes, recruitment of members, and organizing procedures. Also included are collective bargaining agreements, copies of newspaper clippings on the union and James Horton, personal papers of Mr. Horton, and printed materials concerning his band (1955-1974). | | | | Call #: | MS 3736 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Horton, James, 1934- | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Service industries workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Service industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Bands (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 45 | Title: | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 46 | Title: | Hiram House Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Hiram House Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1893-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement. | | | | Call #: | MS 3319 | | | | Extent: | 38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 47 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 48 | Title: | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 49 | Title: | Dorothy E. Smith Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Dorothy E. Family | | | | Dates: | 1865-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, cards, cemetery records, funeral programs, obituaries, legal files, memberships, a deed, certificates, newspaper clippings, student newspapers, playscripts, postcards, programs, reports, receipts, sheet music, yearbooks, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4854 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. | Cleveland Women's Orchestra. | Gilpin Players. | Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Knoxville College. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American soldiers -- Correspondence. | African American sailors -- Correspondence.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 50 | Title: | 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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