| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1941-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland is interdenominational organization founded in 1911 as the Federated Churches of Cleveland to coordinate the community welfare and education activities of 67 Cleveland, Ohio, churches. In 1934, a new constitution was adopted, which officially changed the name of the organization to the Cleveland Church Federation. A new constitution in 1958 changed the Federation's name to the Cleveland Area Church Federation. In 1965 the Cleveland Area Church Federation adopted another new constitution and new name, Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland, and in 1985, the Council adopted its present name, Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. The Metropolitan Affairs Commission was one of three commissions organized within the Council of Churches ca. 1965. It was responsible for issue-centered action programs during the 1960s in three areas; race, civil rights, and poverty. The collection consists of agendas, minutes, reports, memos, notes, correspondence, rosters, budget ledgers, contracts, financial statements, income tax forms, insurance policies, posters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, press releases, newsletters, schedules, and transcripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 4813 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers and 3 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland. | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Affairs Commission. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious aspects. | Urbanization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Karl F. Bruch, Jr. Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | | | | Dates: | 1951-1973 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | MS 4815 | | | | Extent: | 3.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bruch, Karl F., Jr. | Fenn College. | Cleveland State University. | United Presbyterian Church of North America. | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Religion and Race. | Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland. | Council of Churches of Christ of Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Affairs Commission. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious aspects. | Urbanization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local church councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Inner City Protestant Parish Records
| | | | Creator: | Inner City Protestant Parish | | | | Dates: | 1954-1971 | | | | Abstract: | The Inner City Protestant Parish was an experimental, interdenominational, ecumenical, and evangelical group ministry to the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio, organized in 1954 and patterned after the East Harlem Protestant Parish, a similar ministry to Lower East Harlem in New York City. The ICPP was formed by denominational executives, ministers and laymen concerned about the Protestant exodus from the inner city. The ICPP received immediate support from six denominations, and eventually nine, to establish churches and promote religious education and social reform in Cleveland's inner city. The ICPP also established a number of specialized support services: vacation church schools; resident and day camping programs; food, clothing, and emergency cash assistance; educational scholarships, and an inner city credit union. In 1955, the ICPP began its Friendly Town program for inner city children patterned after the "Fresh Air" programs in New York City in the 1880s. The collection consists of histories and statements of purpose, articles of incorporation and bylaws, minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees as well as reports to the board, minutes of meetings of the Executive Committee and files of various other committees of the ICPP, and a variety of subject files pertaining to the work and Group Ministry of the ICPP. The collection includes material for understanding the urban crises of the 1960s and the civil rights struggle at that time, as well as the ecumenical movement within the church and the ideas of the "social gospel" and the theology of the "secular city." | | | | Call #: | MS 4474 | | | | Extent: | 14.20 linear feet (15 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Inner City Protestant Parish (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Protestant churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City missions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Protestant churches -- Missions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church work with the poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Group ministry. | City clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social gospel. | Interdenominational cooperation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Inner cities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Welfare rights movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vacation schools, Christian -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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