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1	Title:	Wade Park Committee Records
	Creator:	Wade Park Committee
	Dates:	1926-1927
	Abstract:	The Wade Park Committee was formed in 1925 by residents of the Wade Park area on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, to prevent non-Caucasians from buying, occupying, or using property in the area. The collection consists of correspondence, proposals, minutes, copies of agreements, and other records relating to residential restrictions in the Wade Park Allotment in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood.
	Call #:	MS 3483
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wade Park Committee (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Minorities -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Zoning, Exclusionary -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Race relations. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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2	Title:	Fair Housing Inc. Records
	Creator:	Fair Housing Inc.
	Dates:	1958-1972
	Abstract:	Fair Housing, Inc., was organized in 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio, as an equal opportunity real estate company. It was dissolved in 1972 and succeeded by Stuart E. Wallace & Company. The collection consists of minutes, financial reports, correspondence, newsletters, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous materials.
	Call #:	MS 3693
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Segregation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real estate investment trusts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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3	Title:	James Adolph Norton Papers
	Creator:	Norton, James Adolph
	Dates:	1960-1968
	Abstract:	James Adolph Norton was a professor of public administration at various colleges and universities around the country before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as Director of the Cleveland Foundation, chairman of the Housing Committee of the Urban League of Cleveland, and president of the American Society of Public Administrators in the 1960s. The collection consists of minutes, agendas, reports, correspondence, and publications, regarding activities of the Urban League, particularly work of the Housing Committee. Included is a report issued by the Urban League's Research Department entitled The Negro in Cleveland, 1950-1963, and issues of its two newsletters, Flash, and Stride.
	Call #:	MS 4539
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Norton, James Adolph, 1922- \| Urban League of Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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4	Title:	Operation Equality Records
	Creator:	Operation Equality
	Dates:	1965-1971
	Abstract:	Operation Equality was a Cleveland, Ohio, housing program established in 1967 by the National Urban League and designed to provide better housing for minority families. It encouraged the use of all legal and legislative tools related to housing, community planning, and development to achieve its goals. The collection consists of the operational plan of the organization, monthly bulletins, annual reports, correspondence, news releases, articles, brochures, and legal documents.
	Call #:	MS 4636
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Operation Equality. \| National Urban League. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Fair Housing Inc. Records, Series II
	Creator:	Fair Housing Inc.
	Dates:	1962-1987
	Abstract:	Fair Housing Inc. was a Cleveland, Ohio, licensed real estate brokerage firm incorporated in 1962 as a for-profit business venture. Its primary aim was to establish the principle of non-discrimination in the Greater Cleveland housing market. It assisted persons who had historically been denied housing because of race, religion, or national origin by offering affordable housing; promoting good community relations as a way to stabilize emerging mixed neighborhoods; and encouraging the dissolution of segregation patterns based on race, ethnicity, or religious background. The founding officers included Karl F. Bruch Jr., Dr. Winston Richie, and Russell Adrine. By 1971, federal and state governments had passed open housing legislation, and Fair Housing Inc. was dissolved. The collection consists of board of directors' and stockholders' records, including articles of incorporation, corporate dissolution records, financial records, agendas, correspondence, directors' information forms, committee rosters, memos, proposals, reports, minutes, broker reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, loan records, shareholder proxies, reply cards, stock campaign records, shareholders' lists, and subject files.
	Call #:	MS 4788
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Real estate investment trusts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Segregation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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6	Title:	Julian Krawcheck Papers
	Creator:	Krawcheck, Julian
	Dates:	1930-1980
	Abstract:	Julian I. Krawcheck (1911-1999) was once described as "the conscience of Cleveland" by Dick McLaughlin. This collection contains personal papers relating to Krawcheck's career as a reporter and columnist in Cleveland, Ohio, including research notes, records of interviews, memoranda, column mail, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks. Krawcheck, a commentary columnist and reporter for the Cleveland Press from 1941 to 1977, was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended the University of South Carolina for two years. In college, he was an avid saxophone player and jazz buff, which contributed to his coverage of jazz events during his journalism career. The collection consists of correspondence, memos, articles, interview records, scrapbooks, photographs, and research notes pertaining to articles written by Krawcheck.
	Call #:	MS 4984
	Extent:	6.43 linear feet (7 containers and 3 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century. \| Cleveland press (Cleveland, Ohio : 1889) \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Inflation (Finance) \| Interracial marriage \| Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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7	Title:	Urban League of Cleveland Records, Series II
	Creator:	Urban League of Cleveland
	Dates:	1964-1981
	Abstract:	The Urban League of Cleveland was organized in 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Negro Welfare Association of Cleveland to aid the adjustment of black workers coming to Cleveland during the Great Migration following World War I. Led by Wm. R. Conners for the first 25 years, it joined the National Urban League in 1930 and changed its name to the Urban League of Cleveland in 1940. Formed initially to confront barriers to economic opportunities and find jobs for black workers, by the 1930s the primary goal of the League was the issue of improved housing. Its purpose is interracial planning to help the community devise solutions to social and economic problems. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, contracts, memoranda and other papers relating to the organization's operation, especially Operation Equality, a subdivision of the organization concerned with fair housing issues. This collection is essential for those interested in the issues of race relations and open housing in Cleveland. Records and reports of organizations such as Operation Equality, the Fair Housing Council, which consisted of several local fair housing groups including Operation Equality, and National Neighbors, a national organization which promoted peaceful integration, comprise a large part of the collection.
	Call #:	MS 4206
	Extent:	10.00 linear feet (10 containers)
	Subjects:	Urban League of Cleveland -- Archives. \| African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Affirmative action programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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8	Title:	Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland Records (Restricted)
	Creator:	Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
	Dates:	1916-1961
	Abstract:	The Jewish Community Federation is a central policy making and fundraising agency for the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio, which traces its origin to the Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland (founded 1903). The Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland changed its name to the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland in 1926, and in 1930, added a fundraising arm, the Jewish Welfare Fund of Cleveland. In 1951 the Jewish Welfare Federation merged with the Jewish Community Council to become the Jewish Community Federation. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and published literature removed from MS 4563 Jewish Community Federation Records because of sensitive or confidential subject matter. It includes records of the Jewish Community Council's Community Relations Committee and its Conciliation and Arbitration Board, as well as case histories from various Jewish social service agencies. The Community Relations Committee investigated allegations of discrimination and antisemitism, and the Conciliation and Arbitration Board mediated conflicts within the Jewish community.
	Call #:	MS 4563A
	Extent:	1.40 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. \| Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Federations, Financial (Social Service) \| Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Mediation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Antisemitism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Discrimination in employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jewish communists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations.
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9	Title:	George Gund Foundation Records, Series II
	Creator:	George Gund Foundation
	Dates:	1966-1998
	Abstract:	The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund. It supports education and various projects of community organizations located primarily in northeastern Ohio, but also in Ohio and the United States. Of particular interest to the Foundation are new teaching methods and education for disadvantaged people. The arts, civic affairs, economic development, the environment, and human services are also priorities of the Foundation. Abortion rights, women's issues, handgun control, homelessness, equal housing, museum development, retinitis pigmentosa research, AIDS public policy and education, community gardening, historic preservation, population control, family planning, and nuclear weapons control are also areas supported by the Foundation. The collection consists of grant files, which include architectural drawings, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, lists, newspaper clippings, one audio cassette tape, photographs, posters, press releases, publications, reports, and slides generated by the grant recipients and grant proposal forms and notes generated by The George Gund Foundation. The collection also contains limited administrative records of The George Gund Foundation, including correspondence, lists, publications, and reports related to grant recipients and a joint project with the Cleveland Public Schools based upon the effective schools model of school-based educational reform entitled Project Perform.
	Call #:	MS 4821
	Extent:	140.44 linear feet (141 containers and 4 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	George Gund Foundation. \| Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Environmental protection -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Pro-choice movement. \| Women's rights. \| AIDS (Disease) -- Research. \| Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Retinitis pigmentosa. \| Birth control. \| Nuclear arms control. \| Economic development.
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