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1	Title:	J. Robert Killpack Papers
	Creator:	Killpack, J. Robert
	Dates:	1984-1989
	Abstract:	J. Robert Killpack (1922-1993) was a successful executive in the Cleveland, Ohio, area during the 1960s through the 1980s. He was active in promoting the development of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and served on the Cleveland Charter Review Commission during its 1988 term. The collection consists of correspondence, meeting materials, and reports assembled during the period while Mr. Killpack was involved with the Charter Review Commission and with city planning projects.
	Call #:	MS 5385
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. \| Civic improvement -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	Near West Side Development Association Records
	Creator:	Near West Side Development Association
	Dates:	1960-1966
	Abstract:	The Near West Side Development Association was a citizen's group formed in 1963 to promote communication and activities between urban planners in the City of Cleveland's Urban Renewal Department and residents of Cleveland, Ohio's near west side. The Association prepared reports, made recommendations, and assisted in planning of urban development. Representatives of over twenty business, banking, educational, religious, charitable, and medical organizations participated in the Association. The collection consists of correspondence, articles of association, minutes of trustee meetings, treasurer's reports and invoices, membership lists, director's reports, and newspaper clippings, relating to the association while Thomas J. Miller served as its executive director, and reflecting its interest in land use, schools, traffic problems, street relocations, and housing.
	Call #:	MS 3512
	Extent:	0.81 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Near West Side Development Association (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Land use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Traffic engineering -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Schools. \| Streets -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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3	Title:	Cleveland Development Foundation Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Development Foundation
	Dates:	1953-1970
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Development Foundation was a Cleveland, Ohio, non-profit corporation founded in 1954 to provide support for community development and renewal projects. The collection consists of financial records, notebooks of clippings, films, maps, and office files containing letter copies, correspondence, minutes, studies, proposals, speeches, contracts, insurance policies, printed brochures, pamphlets and booklets.
	Call #:	MS 3514
	Extent:	48.01 linear feet (66 containers, 54 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Development Foundation. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civic improvement -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Seth Taft Papers
	Creator:	Taft, Seth
	Dates:	1933-2008
	Abstract:	Seth Chase Taft was born in 1922, the grandson of president William H. Taft and son of Cincinnati mayor Charles Phelps Taft II. Following service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Taft married Francis Prindle and began a successful career with Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue in Cleveland. Taft was involved with politics and community activities for many years, including the reformation of the Cuyahoga County Charter in the 1950s and an unsuccessful Republican candidacy for mayor of Cleveland in 1967. He served as a Cuyahoga County commissioner from 1971 to 1978. The collection consists of awards, biographical documents, campaign literature, correspondence, financial data, meetings minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, research files, and urban development proposal reports.
	Call #:	MS 5071
	Extent:	1.81 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Taft, Seth Chase, 1922- \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| County charters -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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5	Title:	Dual Hub Corridor Alternatives Analysis Records
	Creator:	Dual Hub Corridor Alternatives Analysis
	Dates:	1981-1993
	Abstract:	The Dual Hub Corridor Alternatives Analysis (DHCAA) study began in January 1984. It was a joint study of the City of Cleveland, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA), and the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA). It was tasked with the evaluation of different modes of rapid transit between downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and the University Circle area to the east to improve access to the City's two largest employment centers. The collections consists of various reports presented to Dual Hub Corridor Alternatives Analysis members for review and consideration.
	Call #:	MS 5398
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Campus planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Planning. \| Transportation planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban transportation -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Planning.
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6	Title:	Merchant Family Papers
	Creator:	Merchant Family
	Dates:	1812-1907
	Abstract:	Ahaz Merchant (1794-1862) was a surveyor in Cuyahoga County from 1833-1835 and 1845-1850. His son, Aaron merchant (1817-1875) was also a Cuyahoga County Surveyor from 1854-1869. Aaron Merchant's son, Corwin C. Merchant was a surveyor as well. The collection consists of correspondence, banking and tax papers, deeds, land descriptions, land surveys, topographical surveys, maps, blueprints, subdivision plats, diaries, field books, account books, and deed index books.
	Call #:	MS 3477
	Extent:	9.20 linear feet (22 containers and 4 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Merchant family. \| Land use -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County -- Planning. \| Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Streets -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Streets -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Surveys. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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7	Title:	Charles Beard Papers
	Creator:	Beard, Charles
	Dates:	1919-1975
	Abstract:	Charles Beard was born in Georgia and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. He enlisted in the United States Air Force during World War II, serving as a fighter pilot, after training at Tuskegee Air Force Base. In 1945, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Western Reserve University. In 1946, he served as a junior city planner for the City Planning Commission, and in the 1950s worked for the Cleveland Urban Renewal Agency. In the late 1950s, he was promoted to Chief City Planner for Cleveland, and in the 1960s, became the Director of Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (PATH). From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he held a position as a government liaison with the Federation for Community Planning. He also was founder of the Friends of Shaker Square and Fair Housing, Inc. He helped organize the North Coast Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., in 1993. The collection consists of reports, speeches, proposals, correspondence, agendas, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, notes, ordinances, bibliographies, booklets, tables, pamphlets, publications, lists, and maps. The majority of the material relates to Beard's career as Chief City Planner for the City Planning Commission.
	Call #:	MS 4802
	Extent:	1.80 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Beard, Charles, 1923-1993. \| Cleveland (Ohio). City Planning Commission. \| Federation for Community Planning. \| Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Friends of Shaker Square. \| Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. North Coast Chapter. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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8	Title:	Cleveland Mayoral Papers
	Creator:	City of Cleveland, Office of the Mayor
	Dates:	1937-1953
	Abstract:	The collection consists of records produced during the administrations of Cleveland, Ohio, mayors Blythin, Lausche and Burke, 1941-1953. The collection includes correspondence, reports, budget statements, blueprints and maps from various projects during the administrations of these three mayors. The collection pertains to the government of Cleveland during this period, and to the relevant political and social issues occurring at the time. Included within the collection are records relating to race relations, water fluoridation, national security, civic improvements, the 1948 World Series, and the Cleveland bingo controversy.
	Call #:	MS 4276
	Extent:	4.40 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Transit strike, Cleveland, Ohio, 1943-1944. \| Veterans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Bingo -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Water -- Fluoridation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Freedom Train. \| World series (Baseball) \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Civil defense. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Public works. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures.
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9	Title:	Ohio Citizen Action Records
	Creator:	Ohio Citizen Action
	Dates:	1957-1986
	Abstract:	Ohio Citizen Action (f. 1975), is a statewide environmental organization known for its successful canvass-based tactics. It also has worked on campaign finance reform and consumer rights issues. Founded in 1975 as the Ohio Public Interest Campaign (OPIC), it was initially a coalition of union, senior citizen, church, and community groups that worked on issues such as job loss and economic problems stemming from plant closings, community reinvestment, tax abatement,and financial issues, among others. It became part of Citizen Action, a national coalition of consumer and public action groups from several states, in 1980. Citizen Action at its founding was composed of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, Illinois Public Action Council, Massachusetts Fair Share, Ohio Public Interest Campaign, and Oregon Fair Share, and had a central office located in Cleveland. It eventually grew to have affiliates in 34 states. However, the national group had some political disagreements and several state affiliates separated from it, including the Ohio group which became Ohio Citizen Action in 1989. The national group eventually disbanded, but Ohio Citizen Action is very active currently, focusing much of its efforts on what it calls "good neighbor campaigns" since the late 1990s. "Good neighbor campaigns" use the strengths of community organizing combined with canvassing and other techniques to stop polluting at major industries. Ohio Citizen Action has had various successes addressing a wide range of issues. As OPIC, it began fighting for advance notification of plant closings shortly after its founding. This became a nationwide campaign that resulted in federal legislation that became law in 1989. It was sponsored by Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH) who championed workers' and consumers' rights. Due to his tenacity in working on such issues, Ohio Citizen Action honored him after his retirement by establishing the Ohio Citizen Action Howard M. Metzenbaum Award in 1995, awarded to individuals who exemplify Metzenbaum's tenacity in fighting for issues that Ohio Citizen Action and Senator Metzenbaum would support. Ohio Citizen Action (as OPIC) also worked on stopping downtown tax abatements in the city of Cleveland and was involved in the debate over the sale of Muny Light. In 1983 it won an anti-trust suit against three northeast Ohio grocery chains for price fixing that resulted in a $20 million dollar award going to one million Cleveland, Akron, and Lorain area households. This was the largest consumer anti-trust settlement in United States history. It also led a movement to pass toxic substance right-to- know legislation in Cleveland and other cities, which became a model for federal right-to-know laws and the Toxic Release Inventory in 1986. As OPIC transitioned into an organization with dues paying members, it changed its name to Ohio Citizen Action in 1989 and began to focus more on the "good neighbor campaigns" described above. It also became more active in the movement for campaign finance reform supporting the successful initiative for term limits for state legislators and winning the campaign for electronic reporting of campaign contributions in Ohio. Ohio Citizen Action, both non-profit and non-partisan, was in 2012 still an active organization with 80,000 members statewide. It continued to train young activists and promote its causes through door-to-door and phone canvassing. It focused on environmental and public health issues as well as money in politics and consumer issues. Since 1995 the group presents the Ohio Citizen Action Howard M. Metzenbaum Award, mentioned above, each year to an Ohioan that exhibits Senator Metzenbaum's "principled tenacity". The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, charts, correspondence, flyers, legislation, lists, magazine articles, maps, meeting minutes, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, notes, press releases, reports, and testimony.
	Call #:	MS 5135
	Extent:	31.20 linear feet (33 containers)
	Subjects:	Kucinich, Dennis J., 1946- \| Ohio Citizen Action. \| Ohio Public Interest Campaign. \| Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. \| Green movement -- Ohio. \| Environmental policy -- Ohio. \| Local government and environmental policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Consumer movements -- Ohio. \| Community activists -- Ohio. \| Political participation -- Ohio. \| Pressure groups -- Ohio. \| Public interest -- Ohio. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Economic development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Tax remission -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Ohio -- Politics and government -- 20th century. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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10	Title:	Stokes Oral History Collection
	Creator:	Cuyahoga Community College, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland State University
	Dates:	2017
	Abstract:	Carl Stokes, and his brother Louis, were groundbreaking African-American politicians from Cleveland, Ohio. Carl Stokes became the first black mayor of a major U.S. city when elected in 1967. Louis Stokes was the first African-American congressman from Ohio when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, a position he held for 15 consecutive terms. During Carl Stokes' two mayoral terms, city hall jobs were opened to blacks and women, and a number of urban renewal projects initiated. Between 1983 and 1994 Carl Stokes served as municipal judge, and in 1994 was appointed by President Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Seychelles. Louis Stokes began his career as a civil rights attorney and helped challenge the Ohio redistricting in 1965 that fragmented African-American voting strength. In 1967, Louis Stokes argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Terry v. Ohio case, also known as the "stop-and-frisk" case. In the 1970s, Louis Stokes served as chair of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and in the 1980s was a noted member of the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. The interviews were conducted during 2017 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Carl Stokes' election as mayor and the election of Louis Stokes to Congress. The collection includes video recordings of 38 individuals, transcripts, interview release forms, and protocols.
	Call #:	MS 5416
	Extent:	0.81 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. \| Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Civil rights \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Stokes, Carl \| Stokes, Louis \| Stokes family
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11	Title:	University Circle, Incorporated, Records
	Creator:	University Circle, Incorporated
	Dates:	1952-1979
	Abstract:	University Circle, Incorporated was created in 1957 as the University Circle Development Foundation to oversee and coordinate development of the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. Becoming University Circle, Incorporated in 1970, it operated under a 20-year master development plan to preserve the physical environment and reinforce the commitment of members to the area. UCI, Inc. serves as a "land bank" for its members, purchasing, leasing and maintaining properties, and reselling land to members to further their development and promote common purposes. UCI, Inc. also acts as a land use and development consultant, initiating and overseeing construction and assisting environmental and historic preservation projects. It maintains parking facilities, a bus service, and a private security service for the area. It has also entered into urban revitalization projects and cultural, educational, and medical programs in order to strengthen and stimulate relationships with the surrounding communities, particularly the Hough and Fairfax areas. Neil J. Carothers served as UCI's first president, followed by Joseph Pigott, Oliver Brooks, Murray Davidson, and others. The collection consists of articles of incorporation; records of the board of trustees and the executive committee (consisting of members' files, correspondence, minutes, operating policies and plans); officers' records (consisting of presidents', vice-presidents', and executive vice-presidents' files, files of the Circle development director, and correspondence); organizational records (consisting of affiliated and member institution files, correspondence, reports and proposals, property files, UCI police dept. files, and miscellany); special project records (consisting of Community Circle Inc. records, Cleveland New-Town-in-Town project records, housing files, general files, including correspondence, reports, blueprints, speeches and purchase orders, University Circle files, architectural and design review consultants' files, and Euclid-Mayfield Triangle Development Project files); and miscellany. Various document types are present, including news bulletins and brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs.
	Call #:	MS 3900
	Extent:	50.00 linear feet (50 containers)
	Subjects:	Carothers, Neil J. \| Davidson, Murray M. \| University Circle, Incorporated. \| University Circle, Incorporated -- Archives. \| University Circle Development Foundation -- Archives. \| Community Circle, Incorporated -- Archives. \| Case Western Reserve University. \| Western Reserve University. \| University Hospitals of Cleveland (Ohio) \| Fairfax Foundation. \| Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Land use, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Associations, institutions, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Planned unit developments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Police, Private -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cultural parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| University Circle (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
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12	Title:	Carl Stokes Papers
	Creator:	Stokes, Carl
	Dates:	1956-1972
	Abstract:	Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-1967. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the political career of Carl B. Stokes, including his terms in the Ohio State legislature, his mayoral campaigns, and particularly his tenure as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection details the organization of the mayor's office, and illustrates the problems that Blacks in the vanguard of social and political progress faced, as well as the challenges faced by any urban leader in the turbulent 1960s and early 1970s. Key events in Stokes' administration are illustrated, including the Glenville Shootout, the hiring and resignation of Safety Director Gen. Ben Davis, the activities of the Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities, and Cleveland: NOW! The work of then City Council President James Stanton is represented, along with material relating to Stokes' brother Louis. Notable correspondents include Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Robert F. Kennedy, Spiro Agnew, Cyrus Eaton, Edward Kennedy, George Forbes, Jesse Jackson, and Howard Metzenbaum.
	Call #:	MS 4370
	Extent:	104.51 linear feet (107 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Stokes, Carl. \| Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. \| Cleveland Transit System. \| Cleveland: NOW! \| African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. \| Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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