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Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth
century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went
on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland,
Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil
rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards,
brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation,
financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda,
minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports,
photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel
tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills.
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