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1	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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2	Title:	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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3	Title:	Annetta Jefferson Papers
	Creator:	Jefferson, Annetta
	Dates:	1970-1972
	Abstract:	Annetta Jefferson narrated the two WVIZ television series, "The History of Black Americans", and "Reflections in Black" and prepared the teachers' guides which accompanied the programs. Jefferson taught English and drama at Glenville High School, Cleveland, Ohio, then became an education instructor at John Carroll University and a writer for the Educational Research Council of America. The collection consists of teaching guides and scripts for "The History of Black Americans," a WVIZ-TV series which aired in 1970, and "Reflections in Black" which aired on WVIZ-TV several years later. These programs highlighted the history of the black experience in America and the contributions of black authors to American literature.
	Call #:	MS 4162
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Jefferson, Annetta. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- History. \| African American authors -- History and criticism. \| American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. \| Television scripts. \| United States -- History.
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4	Title:	Jane Edna Hunter Papers
	Creator:	Hunter, Jane Edna
	Dates:	1930-1969
	Abstract:	Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) was the founder and director of the Phillis Wheatley Association, a residential and training center for African American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, speeches, printed items, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous writings, relating to Mrs. Hunter and the Phillis Wheatley Association.
	Call #:	MS 3544
	Extent:	0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Clara Johnson Papers
	Creator:	Johnson, Clara
	Dates:	1942-1993
	Abstract:	Clara Johnson (1900-1993) was a minister in the Fire Baptized Holiness church in Cleveland, Ohio, and founder and pastor of Highlight Fire Baptized Holiness Church in Maple Heights for 35 years. She was also the founder and teacher at the Ruth and Esther Bible College which was run out of her Cleveland, Ohio, home. The collection consists of certificates, conference proceedings, a history, a newsletter, and newspaper clippings.
	Call #:	MS 5263
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fire-Baptized Holiness Church
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6	Title:	Stella G. White Papers, Series II
	Creator:	White, Stella G.
	Dates:	1943-1991
	Abstract:	Stella G. White was a free lance journalist, columnist for the Plain Dealer newspaper, and community leader in Cleveland, Ohio. Married first to Judge Charles W. White of Cleveland, she later became the wife of Curtis Lamar Bigham and resided in Dawsonville, Georgia. While in Dawsonville, she was a columnist for The Forum. She was instrumental in the Dawson County, Georgia, courthouse renovation project, and active in the Dawson County Women's Club. The collection consists of resumes, certificates, columns, newspaper clippings, correspondence, military documents, speeches, genealogical materials, book manuscripts, cancer research material, and memorabilia. These papers pertain primarily to White's career as a free lance journalist for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, and as a columnist for The Forum in Dawsonville, Georgia. It also includes some of her other writings. Most of her columns centered around the subject of race relations, housing, legislation, and health care.
	Call #:	MS 4638
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	White, Stella G., 1907-1991. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Afro-American women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. \| Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. \| Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. \| Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. \| Dawson County (Ga.).
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7	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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8	Title:	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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9	Title:	Lethia Cousins Fleming Papers
	Creator:	Fleming, Lethia Cousins
	Dates:	1903-1963
	Abstract:	Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876-1963) was a teacher from West Virginia who became a social worker for the Division of Child Welfare in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1931-1951). She and her husband, Cleveland city councilman Thomas W. Fleming, were active in local civic and charitable organizations. The collection consists of teaching certificates, certificates of recognition, testimonials, curriculum vitae, real estate account books, travel souvenirs, and newspaper clippings relating to Mrs. Fleming, and records of the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People, its Men's Auxiliary, the Phillis Wheatley Association, and other charitable organizations.
	Call #:	MS 3525
	Extent:	0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963. \| Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities.
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10	Title:	Jane Edna Hunter Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Hunter, Jane Edna
	Dates:	1909-1964
	Abstract:	Jane Edna Hunter was the founder and director of the Phillis Wheatley Association, a residential and training center for African American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, articles of incorporation, invoices, bylaws, checks, correspondence, a datebook, financial records, leases, a medical journal, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, poetry, press releases, receipts, reports, and a scrapbook. The collection primarily contains documents related to the personal business and financial activities of Hunter and the Phillis Wheatley Association Foundation.
	Call #:	MS 4867
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971. \| Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Phillis Wheatley Association Foundation. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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11	Title:	Clara Johnson Photographs
	Creator:	Johnson, Clara
	Dates:	1920-1980
	Abstract:	Clara Johnson (1900-1993) was a minister in the Fire Baptized Holiness church in Cleveland, Ohio, and founder and pastor of Highlight Fire Baptized Holiness Church in Maple Heights for 35 years. She was also the founder and teacher at the Ruth and Esther Bible College which was run out of her Cleveland, Ohio, home. The collection consists of 261 black and white and color photographs.
	Call #:	PG 609
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fire-Baptized Holiness Church
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12	Title:	Stella G. White Papers
	Creator:	White, Stella G.
	Dates:	1941-1975
	Abstract:	Stella G. White (1907-1991) was a freelance journalist and leader in Cleveland, Ohio, mass transit and interracial community relations. She served on the Community Relations Board, the Council on Human Relations, and the Board of the Cleveland Transit System. She was a columnist for the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of certificates, clippings, correspondence, columns, memorabilia, speeches, American Transit Association files, and Cleveland Transit System files.
	Call #:	MS 4113
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	White, Stella G., 1907-1991. \| Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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13	Title:	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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14	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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15	Title:	Mary Jane Baylor Papers
	Creator:	Baylor, Mary Jane
	Dates:	1950-1980
	Abstract:	Mary Jane Baylor was the first African American salesperson to work for the Halle Brothers Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Beginning in 1944 in the stock department, she moved on to a clerical position, and in 1950, as a salesperson in the children and infants' department. She received commendations for her service and awards for her ability to thwart crime and prevent fraud. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and guest lists.
	Call #:	MS 4648
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Baylor, Mary Jane. \| Halle Bros. Co. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Retail trade -- Employees. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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16	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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17	Title:	Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson Papers
	Creator:	Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks
	Dates:	1948-2010
	Abstract:	Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1904. Orphaned at age four, she was raised by the Davis family. She attended Dallas Colored High School and Fisk University before applying to the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. Johnson graduated in 1928 with a master's degree in social work. As a social worker, Johnson was first employed by Associated Charities of Cleveland, Ohio. Later, she worked for the Cuyahoga County Department of Welfare in conjunction with the federal program Aid to Dependent Children. She retired in 1961. Johnson married Elmer Cheeks in 1929. They had two sons. Cheeks died in 1941, and Johnson married Raymond Johnson in 1957. He died in 1983. Mrs. Johnson was an active member of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, an avid reader and traveler, and a supporter of a variety of charities. At age 105, she attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Soon after, with the assistance of a freelance writer, she wrote her autobiography. It was published shortly after her death in 2010. The collection consists of annual reports, booklets, book manuscripts, book proofs, brochures, catalogues, certificates, church directories, citations, correspondence, forms, a guest book, an inauguration ticket, lists, magazine articles, newsletter articles, newspaper articles, notes, passports, proclamations, programs, remarks, speeches, and writings.
	Call #:	MS 5068
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. \| Case Western Reserve University. \| Fisk University. \| Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- United States. \| African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. \| Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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