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1	Title:	Mary P. Hutchings Papers
	Creator:	Hutchings, Mary P.
	Dates:	1931-1991
	Abstract:	Mary P. Hutchings (1915-1991) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney and for ten years the Chief Referee of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission. She was born in Union City, Tennessee. Her family moved to Cleveland and she attended the Cleveland City Schools before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. She returned to Tennessee and graduated from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis and later received a graduate degree from Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Science. In 1951 she joined future jurist Lillian Burke as a graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School. In addition to private law practice, Hutchings served as an assistant state attorney general for mental hygiene and corrections and a guidance counselor at the Cleveland Job Corps for Women. In her civic life she served on several boards and was active with the NAACP, Women's City Club, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, Americans for Democratic Action, the Glenville YWCA, the Phillis Wheatley Association, Jack & Jill of America and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her local political activism earned her invitations to Lyndon Johnson's 1965 presidential inauguration and state of the union message to Congress. She supported Carl Stokes' 1965 and 1967 mayoral campaigns. She served as a precinct committeewoman for Wards 19 and 25. In 1938 she married George Hutchings and had one son, Phillip. The collection consists of agendas, cards, certificates, correspondence, invitations, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, postcards, proclamations, programs, reports, a resume, speeches, subpoenas, telegrams, and a yearbook.
	Call #:	MS 4851
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Hutchings, Mary P., 1915-1991. \| Stokes, Carl. \| Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). \| LeMoyne-Owen College. \| African American women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1964. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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2	Title:	Clara P. Smith Papers
	Creator:	Smith, Clara P.
	Dates:	1959-1996
	Abstract:	Clara Pearl Smith (1917-2009) was a civil rights activist and social worker in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. She was president of the East 88th Street Club and the Wade Superior Neighborhood Association and co-founded the the Hough Area Council and the Bell Neighborhood Branch of Gannett Goodrich House. The collection consists of a biography, case studies, certificates, correspondence, a genealogy, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, programs, reports, and song lyrics.
	Call #:	MS 5264
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Hough Area Council (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Public Schools \| African Americans -- Civil rights.
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3	Title:	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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4	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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