| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization | | | | Dates: | 1965-1990 | | | | Abstract: | The Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization (f. 1966) formed as a result of a protest march from Cleveland, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, in June of 1966. The march was led by Reverend Paul Younger of Fidelity Baptist Church in Cleveland with a small group of welfare recipients to highlight the plight of low-income people. This group used the march to put forth their demands of all people being able to meet their basic needs while having their dignity preserved. The organization grew and eventually a state affiliate, the Ohio Welfare Rights Organization, was formed as well as the National Welfare Rights Organization. In 1994 the Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization (GCWRO) changed its name to the Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland. The collection consists of 37 black and white prints, 226 color prints, 4 black and white negatives, 42 color negatives, 25 slides (24 black and white and 1 color), and 12 color transparencies. | | | | Call #: | PG 562 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization. -- Photographs. | Welfare rights movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Human services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Poor -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Poverty -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization Records
| | | | Creator: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization | | | | Dates: | 1963-1995 | | | | Abstract: | The Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization was founded in 1966 following a protest march from Cleveland, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio, by a small group of welfare recipients. The group used the march to highlight their demands that all people be able to meet basic needs with dignity. From the GCWRO grew a state affiliate and a national organization, the National Welfare Rights Organization. By the mid-1970s, GCWRO was a funded organization through the United Way with Minnie Player as director. Carolyn Miller was appointed executive director of the group following Ms. Player's death in 1983. GCWRO evolved into an organization to advocate for and educate those receiving public assistance. Outreach programming efforts included: Minnie's House, a women's center developed to focus on the specific issues of low-income women; the Give-a-Christmas program, aiding those with great need at the holidays; and, various programs and seminars on job training, self-sufficiency, and parenting. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, booklets, certificates, constitutions, correspondence, financial statements, flyers/handouts, forms, grant proposals, interviews, invitations, lists, manuals, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, notes, press releases, programs, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5069 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Greater Cleveland Welfare Rights Organization. | Empowerment Center of Greater Cleveland. | Welfare rights movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Welfare recipients -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Human services -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Ray Thomas Miller Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Miller, Ray Thomas | | | | Dates: | 1924-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Ray Thomas Miller (1893-1966) was a prominent lawyer, businessman and Democratic political leader in Cleveland, Ohio, who served as assistant law director (1922-1923), city prosecutor (1928), and Mayor (1932-1935). A major accomplishment of his administration was the relief of the city's homeless and unemployed through the acquisition of federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds and the establishment of such programs as the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Wayfarer's Lodge, and municipal kitchens. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, legal documents, ordinances, resolutions, newspaper clippings, and proclamations. The majority of the material consists of departmental files containing constituent and interoffice correspondence, resolutions, and resignations. Major topics include welfare programs and Communist political activity. | | | | Call #: | MS 3739 | | | | Extent: | 6.00 linear feet (8 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Miller, Ray T. (Ray Thomas), 1893-1966. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Communists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Harold H. Burton Papers
| | | | Creator: | Burton, Harold H. | | | | Dates: | 1911-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Harold Hitz Buron (1888-1964) was a lawyer, World War I soldier, law professor, Ohio state congressman, law director of Cleveland, Acting City Manager, Acting Mayor, Mayor, United States Senator from Ohio, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, campaign literature, broadsides, reports, schedules, inventories, lists and newspaper clippings relating to Burton's personal life, his activities in various organizations, and his political activities, including his administration of Cleveland's municipal government, 1935-1940. | | | | Call #: | MS 3584 | | | | Extent: | 35.00 linear feet (34 containers and 14 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. | Burton family. | Legislators -- United States. | Judges -- United States. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | National socialists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lakeshore development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | St. Lawrence Seaway. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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