Subject | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| | • | Moon family. |
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| | • | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- |
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| | • | Moon, Leah. |
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| | • | Moon, Mollie Lewis. |
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| | • | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. |
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| | • | National Urban League. |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women -- United States. |
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| | • | African American women public relations personnel. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government -- 20th century. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. |
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| | • | Bunche, Ralph J. -- (Ralph Johnson), -- 1904-1971 |
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| | • | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights movements -- United States. |
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| | • | Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. |
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| | • | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Congressional Black Caucus |
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| | • | Forbes, George L., 1931- |
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| | • | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Jackson, Jesse, 1941- |
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| | • | Labor movement -- United States. |
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| | • | Lynching -- United States |
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| | • | McCurdy, Merle M., d. 1968. |
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| | • | Moon, Joseph Herbert. |
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| | • | Ohio. Court of Appeals. 8th District. |
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| | • | Stokes family |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl |
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| | • | Stokes, Louis, 1925- |
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| | • | United States -- Race relations. |
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| | Article | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Attorneys Black and White: a case study of race relations within the NAACP
| | | | Parent: | Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.). J. Am. hist. (Bloomingt. Indiana). Journal of American history. Bloomington, Ind., Mississippi Valley Historical Association. v. 62, no. 4, March 1976, p. 913-946
| | | | Creator: | Meier, August, 1923- | | | | Publication: | | | | | Call #: | F25A M678 v.62, no.4 | | | | Extent: | | | | | Subjects: | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Merle M. McCurdy Papers
| | | | Creator: | McCurdy, Merle M. | | | | Dates: | 1960-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Merle M. McCurdy (died 1968) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney and civil rights leader. The collection consists of correspondence, including two letters from J. Edgar Hoover, dated April 9, 1963 and December 17, 1963, and a copy of a speech delivered by McCurdy at a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Atlanta, Georgia. | | | | Call #: | MS 3597 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | McCurdy, Merle M., d. 1968. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1910-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Lee Moon was public relations director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its New York headquarters (1948-1960). Mollie Lewis Moon, his wife, was a social worker, 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). Roddy K. Moon (1868-1952) was an organizer of the Cleveland chapter of the NAACP. The collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, book reviews, speeches, press releases and reports relating to Henry and Mollie Lewis Moon, and letters, photographs, accounts, receipts, anniversary cards, garden club programs, and clippings relating to the gardening interests of Mr. and Mrs. Roddy K. Moon and to other members of the Moon family. | | | | Call #: | MS 3628 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African American social workers.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | Leo A. Jackson Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jackson, Leo A. | | | | Dates: | 1943-1996 | | | | Abstract: | 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. | | | | Call #: | 5301 | | | | Extent: | 20.51 linear feet (22 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government -- 20th century. | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. | Ohio. Court of Appeals. 8th District.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Louis Stokes Scrapbooks
| | | | Creator: | Stokes, Louis | | | | Dates: | 1948-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Louis Stokes (b. 1925) served in the United States House of Representatives from the 21st and 11th congressional districts of Ohio from 1968-1999, representing the east side of Cleveland and several of its suburbs. The first African American from Ohio to serve in the House of Representatives, Stokes chaired the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Ethics Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, and the Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs, HUD and independent agencies as well as work on the House Select Committee on Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. He was also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the dean of the Ohio Congressional Delegation. The collection consists of 31 volumes containing mostly newspaper articles and clippings but also including awards, certificates, Congressional Record excerpts, editorials, invitations, magazine articles, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, programs, and other such material. There is also an external hard-drive included with digital images of the volumes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5152 | | | | Extent: | 10.20 linear feet (31 volumes and 1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Civil rights | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government | Congressional Black Caucus | Forbes, George L., 1931- | Jackson, Jesse, 1941- | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Stokes family | Stokes, Carl | Stokes, Louis, 1925-
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 10 | 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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