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	Title:	East End Neighborhood House Records
	Creator:	East End Neighborhood House
	Dates:	1911-1966
	Abstract:	East End Neighborhood House was founded in the Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907 by Hedwig Kosbob, as a sewing school in the predominantly Hungarian and Slovak neighborhood of Buckeye-Woodland. It was incorporated in 1910. By 1914 it began cultural and recreational programs, and by the Great Depression it grew into a full service community center, adding such services as day care nurseries, Americanization classes, and aid to Japanese Americans relocated to Cleveland during World War II. The collection consists of organizational proceedings, membership records, correspondence, program reports, group worker reports, announcements, scrapbooks, and printed materials.
	Call #:	MS 3568
	Extent:	11.70 linear feet (30 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Day care centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Slovak Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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	Title:	East End Neighborhood House Records, Series II
	Creator:	East End Neighborhood House
	Dates:	1910-1976
	Abstract:	East End Neighborhood House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907. It originally offered domestic skills classes and recreational activities to new immigrants principally from Hungary. The Center is a social settlement/community center serving Cleveland's Buckeye-Woodland-Woodhill community. Hungarian during the first half of the century, this area became largely Black during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout this period, the center adjusted its activities to meet the needs of the area and also to take advantage of newly available federal funds. The programs reflected increased attention to the needs of senior citizens and also included expanded daycare programs and mental-health programs. The collection consists of minutes of the Board of Trustees, membership lists, corporate documents, personnel and director search records, general correspondence, financial records, and general program descriptions and budget statements. The collection pertains to the center's operation and includes material relating to its financial crisis, 1974-76, its search for a black director, and the changing racial composition of the area served by the center.
	Call #:	MS 4252
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio)
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	Title:	Karamu House Records
	Creator:	Karamu House
	Dates:	1914-1979
	Abstract:	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, Eugene O'Neill, and Langston Hughes, whose career was launched at Karamu. In 1939, the house was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding was not completed until 1949. The Jelliffes' mission of an interracial institution continued until the late 1960s, when, under the leadership of new director Kenneth Snipes, Karamu's mission became one of promoting African-American theater and plays specifically about the African-American experience. During this time a professional troupe of actors was formed. In 1982, Karamu formally returned to its original mission as an interracial organization. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, building construction applications, historical accounts, minutes, records of the Board of Trustees, reports, proposals, publications, financial records, contribution records, correspondence, play scripts and related information, announcements of events, programs, memoranda, date books, guest books, newspaper clippings, subject files, ledgers, scrapbooks, and student enrollment cards. Notable correspondents include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Hubert Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Phillip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, Carter G. Woodson, Eliot Ness, Walter White, Marian Anderson, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Harry E. Davis, Harry C. Smith, and Jane Edna Hunter. The majority of the papers date from the period after World War II, particularly the 1950s and 1960s.
	Call #:	MS 4606
	Extent:	79.21 linear feet (92 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. \| Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. \| Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. \| Karamu House. \| Gilpin Players. \| Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Rural-urban migration -- United States. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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	Title:	West Side Community House Records
	Creator:	West Side Community House
	Dates:	1890-1973
	Abstract:	West Side Community House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890 by Methodist deaconesses. Early services included nursing, industrial, and domestic classes. Ongoing services included day care, clubs and classes for both boys and girls, Sunday school, vacation bible school, Christian reading clubs, an Americanization program, and classes in citizenship and English. In 1944 the Community House became non-denominational and adopted a professional social service approach. The collection consists of constitutions, by-laws, minutes, budgets, financial records, personnel and membership files, registration forms, evaluations of individuals and groups, correspondence of the Community House, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, the National Federation of Settlements, the Cleveland Federation of Settlements and the Case Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences, subject files, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.
	Call #:	MS 3938
	Extent:	32.66 linear feet (35 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	West Side Community House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social case work. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Deaconesses -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women in charitable work. \| Women, Methodist -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hispanic Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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	Title:	Paul W. Walter Papers
	Creator:	Walter, Paul W.
	Dates:	1929-1955
	Abstract:	Paul W. Walter (1907-1992) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who served as campaign manager for Harold Burton's mayoral and senatorial campaigns and Robert A. Taft's senatorial and presidential campaigns. He was also active in Cleveland civic and social welfare organizations. The collection consists of correspondence, news releases, speeches, financial records, lists, schedules, campaign literature, newspaper clippings, photographs and other miscellaneous records relating to the political activities of Paul Walter, Harold Burton and Robert Taft.
	Call #:	MS 3302
	Extent:	44.20 linear feet (105 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Walter, Paul W., 1907-1992. \| Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. \| Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953. \| Elections -- Ohio. \| Elections -- United States. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio. \| Political campaigns -- United States. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Ohio -- Politics and government. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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