http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?keyword%3Dshakers;f1-subject%3DCleveland%20(Ohio)%20--%20Race%20relations. Results for your query: keyword=shakers;f1-subject=Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Albert Pennybacker was a civil rights activist and pastor of Heights Christian Church in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights. The collection consists of correspondence with civil rights workers and organizations, including the Cleveland Board of Education, the League of Women Voters of Shaker Heights, the Welfare Federation, and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld. Also included are committee minutes and reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and news releases of groups including the Citizens' Commission of Shaker Heights, the Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation, the Emergency Clergy Committee on Civil Rights, Laymen for Civil Rights, and the Ludlow Community Association. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4110.xml The Council on Human Relations is an interracial relations council organized in 1955, in Cleveland, Ohio, by a splinter group from the local chapter of the National Conference on Christians and Jews. Its goal is to promote interracial understanding and appreciation through education of children and young adults. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, brochures, interoffice memos, financial records, newspaper clippings, and program files. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4110.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3676.xml Daniel Edgar Morgan (1877-1949) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and politician who served as a city councilman, Ohio state senator (1928-1930), Cleveland City Manager (1930-1931), and judge of the Eighth District Court of Appeals (1939-1949). The collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, proposals, publications and newspaper clippings relating to Morgan's tenure as Cleveland City Manager. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3676.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5103.xml Jordan C. Band (b. 1923) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, area lawyer and social activist. Born and raised in the Cleveland area, Band attended Western Reserve University for two years before being drafted into the Army in 1943. Upon his return home from the war in 1946, he married Alice Glickson, with whom he had three children. He finished his schooling in the Law School of Western Reserve University. Band was hired by law firm Ulmer, Berne, Gordon & Glickman (today known as Ulmer & Berne), where he worked until his retirement in 1994. Band concentrated in real estate and property law, and at one point served as the legal counsel for the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. Band was also involved in numerous organizations, both nationally and in the Cleveland area. Nationally, Band served as chairman of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council from 1967-1970. He was the national vice president of the American Jewish Committee from 1975-1980 and a member of the National Urban Coalition, ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5103.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4606.xml 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, Euge... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4606.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4815.xml Karl F. Bruch Jr. was active in church, politics, and civil rights in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, particularly during the 1960s-1970s. He was president of Fair Housing Inc., a real estate company committed to integrating neighborhoods in the Cleveland area. He was also a member of the Greater Cleveland Council of Churches and a director of its Metropolitan Affairs Commission, and the United Presbyterian Church's Synod of Ohio Evangelism and Social Witness and the Commission on Religion and Race. Bruch was also a member of the Fenn College Board of Trustees at the time it was incorporated into Cleveland State University. The collection consists of agendas, minutes of meetings, reports, a roster, newspaper clippings, newsletters, correspondence, announcements, legal documents, press releases, and financial documents. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4815.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5301.xml Leo Jackson (1920-1996) was an African American attorney and appeals court judge in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of Cleveland's city council from 1957-1970 where he represented the Glenville neighborhood and Ward 24. The collection consists of affidavits, agendas, applications, budgets, campaign literature, campaign signs, case files, certificates, charts, correspondence, court documents, expense statements, flyers, forms, journal entries, judicial opinions, lists, magazine articles, magazine clippings, magazines/publications, manuals, maps, meeting minutes, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, notices, ordinances, petitions, reports, resolutions, rosters, speeches/statements/remarks, syllabi, thesis, and transcripts. The collection also includes seven audio tapes, four film reels, 37 black and white photographs, and 12 color photographs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5301.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3662.xml The Ludlow Community Association was formed in 1957 to address the problems of integration in the Ludlow community of Shaker Heights and Cleveland, Ohio. Its main goals were to maintain a racial balance and prevent white flight from the community. The collection consists of trustees' minutes, financial records, membership lists, project files, reports, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3662.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4981.xml The Ludlow Community Association (f. 1957) is "the voice of Ludlow, articulating to the city governments and other agencies Ludlow's concerns and desires." The Ludlow Community Association (LCA) formed from a series of block meetings to discuss the stabilization of the demographically shifting community of Ludlow, a neighborhood in Cleveland and Shaker Heights, Ohio. The main task of the LCA during its conception was to persuade white people to buy homes in Ludlow in order to maintain a racially integrated community. The collection consists of annual reports, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, promotional material, committee and president reports, and various other records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4981.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml The Cleveland Area Leadership Study was a major research project designed to study the power base of greater Cleveland, Ohio, with emphasis on the decision-making process and the role of various community leaders. The project was supervised by Maurice Klain, professor in the Department of Political Science at Western Reserve University. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, a subject file, questionnaires, raw data from Klain's studies on endorsements and voter tabulations, interpretative computer printouts, and newspaper clippings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4243.xml The PACE Association was a citizens' group that worked to improve the quality of education and to promote better race relations in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area school systems. It was founded in 1963 and operated until January, 1974. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, a constitution, bylaws, code of regulations, minutes, policy statements, reports, correspondence, memoranda, proposals, financial records, subject files, project files, membership lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and publications. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4243.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Thomas Campbell was an author, community leader, and professor and university administrator who co-founded the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and served as its director. Campbell served as president of the City Club of Cleveland, and was instrumental in opening its doors to women. He directed the Cleveland Heritage Program for Cleveland Public Library. He ran for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977. He founded the Irish American Archives Society and was deeply involved in the Irish American community of Cleveland, as well as numerous other groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The collection consists of agendas, awards, biographical data, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, examination papers, flyers, invitations, magazine articles, memberships, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, plays, poems, programs, recipes, reports, resumes, speeches, workshops and writings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4206.xml The Urban League of Cleveland was organized in 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Negro Welfare Association of Cleveland to aid the adjustment of black workers coming to Cleveland during the Great Migration following World War I. Led by Wm. R. Conners for the first 25 years, it joined the National Urban League in 1930 and changed its name to the Urban League of Cleveland in 1940. Formed initially to confront barriers to economic opportunities and find jobs for black workers, by the 1930s the primary goal of the League was the issue of improved housing. Its purpose is interracial planning to help the community devise solutions to social and economic problems. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, contracts, memoranda and other papers relating to the organization's operation, especially Operation Equality, a subdivision of the organization concerned with fair housing issues. This collection is essential for those interested in the issues of race relations and open ho... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4206.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT