| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie Holloway Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Holloway, Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie | | | | Dates: | 1907-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Cynthia Moultrie Holloway (1912-1994) taught in the Cleveland Public Schools for over thirty years. She was a teacher at Rutherford B. Hayes, Kinsman, and Anton Grdina schools. She traveled throughout the world as a delegate to conferences of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession, including Australia, England, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil. She held leadership positions in thirty Ohio Education assemblies and served for eight years on the Ohio Education Association's Human Relations Committee. Her husband Edward L. Holloway (1910-1985) was a industrial arts teacher at several Cleveland Public Schools who served in leadership capacities in the North Eastern Ohio Teachers Association and the Ohio Education Association. The Holloways were among the first African American teachers to serve in leadership positions within the Ohio Education Association. The collection consists of scrapbooks that contain biographies, certificates, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and ephemera. | | | | Call #: | MS 5317 | | | | Extent: | 2.41 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Mary B. Martin Scrapbook
| | | | Creator: | Martin, Mary B. | | | | Dates: | 1905-1962 | | | | Abstract: | Mary Brown Martin was a Cleveland, Ohio, teacher. In 1929, she became the first African-American elected to the Cleveland Board of Education. Martin came to Cleveland from Raleigh, North Carolina in 1886. She received a degree from Western Reserve University in 1903 and began her teaching career in Birmingham, Alabama. Returning to Cleveland, she married attorney Alexander H. Martin in 1905. She died shortly after being elected to a third term on the Board of Education in 1939. An elementary school at East 82nd and Brookline in Cleveland was named in her honor in 1962. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, cards, programs, campaign materials, telegrams, announcements and correspondence, dealing primarily with her election to the Cleveland Board of Education and her death in 1939. Correspondents include members of the Ohio Supreme Court and General Assembly, George Bellamy, and Cuyahoga County Coroner Sam Gerber. | | | | Call #: | MS 4047 | | | | Extent: | 0.17 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Martin, Mary Brown, 1877-1939 | Cleveland Public Schools Board of Education | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Women in education -- Ohio -- Cleveland | School board members -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | Myrtle Johnson Bell Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bell, Myrtle Johnson | | | | Dates: | 1917-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Myrtle Johnson Bell (1895-1978) was the first African American woman to serve as an assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools. She also served on the Advisory Board on Playgrounds and Recreation and on the Community Relations Board of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, school and club programs, certificates, a school centennial pamphlet, a play script, dinner programs and guest lists, testimonials, newspaper clippings, a syllabus of "A Short Course in Human Relations for Teen-Agers," and three scrapbooks, relating to Mrs. Bell's career as a teacher (1916-1938) and as an assistant high school principal (1938-1966). | | | | Call #: | MS 3522 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- | African American principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American school superintendents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | High school teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | High school principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women school administrators -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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