Subject | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | [X] | | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Karamu House. |
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| | • | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. |
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| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. |
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| | • | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. |
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| | • | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. |
(2)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. |
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| | • | Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Forbes, George L., 1931- |
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| | • | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. |
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| | • | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. |
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| | • | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(2)
| | • | Rural-urban migration -- United States. |
(2)
| | • | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. |
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| | • | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- |
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| | • | Silver, Reuben, 1925- |
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| | • | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl. |
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| | • | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | White, Charles William, 1897-1970. |
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| | • | White, Stella G., 1907-1991. |
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| | • | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Affirmative action programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Africa American women authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. |
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| | • | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights |
(1)
| | • | African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Afro-American women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
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| | • | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Black power -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Boycott -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. |
(1)
| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Businessmen's Interracial Committee on Community Affairs (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. |
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| | • | Clergy -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. |
(1)
| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Economic aspects. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. |
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| | • | Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. |
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| | • | Cleveland Transit System. |
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| | • | Cleveland: NOW! |
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| | • | Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. |
(1)
| | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Davis family. |
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| | • | Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. |
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| | • | Dawson County (Ga.). |
(1)
| | • | Discrimination in employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. |
(1)
| | • | Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity. Cleveland Chapter -- Archives. |
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| | • | Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. |
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| | • | Fast food restaurants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Franchises (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Future Outlook League. |
(1)
| | • | Gilpin Players. |
(1)
| | • | Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. |
(1)
| | • | Health planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
(1)
| | • | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. |
(1)
| | • | Karamu Foundation. |
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| | • | Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- |
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| | • | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Lyons, Frank, 1894-1974. |
(1)
| | • | McDonald's Corporation. |
(1)
| | • | Minority business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- Archives. |
(1)
| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch -- History. |
(1)
| | • | Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Norton, James Adolph, 1922- |
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| | • | Operation Black Unity. |
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| | • | Pennybacker, Albert M., ca. 1930- |
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| | • | Picketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Political clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
(1)
| | • | Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Episcopal Church. |
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| | • | Recreation and juvenile delinquency. |
(1)
| | • | Republican Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) |
(1)
| | • | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Stokes family |
(1)
| | • | Stokes, Carl |
(1)
| | • | Stokes, Louis |
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| | • | Urban League of Cleveland -- Archives. |
(1)
| | • | Urban League of Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | White family. |
(1)
| | • | Women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
(1)
| | • | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. |
(1)
| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 21 | Title: | Fannie M. Lewis Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lewis, Fannie M. | | | | Dates: | 1965-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Fannie M. Lewis (1926-2008) was an African American activist and Cleveland, Ohio, councilwoman. She was involved in a number of Hough neighborhood improvement programs, including Community Action for Youth, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Model Cities Association, and the Citizen's Participation Organization. She became a city councilwoman from Cleveland's Ward 7 in 1982. The collection consists of personal papers and the records and subject files relating to Lewis' work with the Model Cities Association, Neighborhood Youth Corps, and other community organizations. Included are articles of incorporation, bylaws, trustee minutes, monthly reports, financial records, proposals, correspondence, memoranda, residency lists, posters, and newspaper clippings. The collection is useful to the study of Cleveland community development programs and Fanny Lewis' efforts with these programs. Some materials relate to racism, politics, and local government in Cleveland during the 1960s and 1970s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4341 | | | | Extent: | 14.00 linear feet (16 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Health planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 22 | Title: | Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jelliffe, Russell and Rowena | | | | Dates: | 1914-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe were social workers who in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club of Cleveland, Ohio, founded the Neighborhood Association, popularly known as the Playhouse Settlement, in 1915. Founded primarily to aid African Americans who had migrated to Cleveland from the rural South, Playhouse Settlement offered the usual social services, but gained note for its dramatic and artistic programs. In 1927 the Jelliffes acquired property which was remodeled as a theater and named the Karamu Theater. In 1941, the Settlement was renamed Karamu House. The Jelliffes shared the directorship of Karamu House until their retirement in 1963, after which they served as trustees of the Karamu Foundation. Russell Jelliffe was also an active member of the Urban League, the Cleveland Community Relations Council on Race Relations, the executive committee of the local branch of the NAACP, and the Board of the Cleveland Council of Human Relations. He was involved with the Group Work Council of the Welfare Federation and was a trustee of Oberlin College and the Cleveland Civil Liberties Union. Rowena Jelliffe was involved in the NAACP, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, the Urban League, the National Theatre Conference, the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Guidance Center, and the Board of Directors of the American National Theatre and Academy. Both the Jelliffes received numerous honors and awards. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, journals, a diary, date books, speeches, schedules, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, Karamu Board of Trustee files, Karamu Foundation files, deeds, publications, blueprints, playscripts, programming information, subject files, memoranda, drawings, manuscripts, research papers and studies, certificates, awards, and scrapbooks. In addition to the personal papers of the Jelliffes, this collection contains a significant collection of the records of Karamu House, including initial negotiations with the Second Presbyterian Men's Club concerning the founding of Neighborhood Association, administrative files, histories, materials concerning the New Building Campaign of the 1940s, correspondence with Harold T. Clark, programming files, materials concerning the search for a new executive director, playscripts, publications, and scrapbooks. Also included in the collection are letters, notes, and a poem written by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's play, Sermon. Also included are the records of the Karumu Foundation, 1948-1977. | | | | Call #: | MS 4737 | | | | Extent: | 12.71 linear feet (14 containers, 3 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. | Karamu House. | Karamu Foundation. | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rural-urban migration -- United States. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 23 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 24 | Title: | Cleveland: NOW! Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland: NOW! | | | | Dates: | 1967-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Cleveland: NOW! was a multiracial joint public and private program for extensive urban renewal and revitalization in Cleveland, Ohio, created by Mayor Carl B. Stokes following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. The program planned to raise $1.5 billion over ten years. The first 2-year phase called for spending $177 million for projects in eight areas: neighborhood housing rehabilitation; accelerated urban renewal; the creation of 16,000 jobs; expansion of small business opportunities; city planning; health, welfare, and day care centers; summer recreation programs for youth; and the construction of Camp Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout of July 23, 1968, a gun battle between police and members of the Black Nationalists Organization of New Libya who obtained weapons with funds received indirectly from Cleveland: NOW! Stokes and the NOW! trustees were sued in 1970 by 8 policemen wounded in the shootout, but the suit was dismissed in 1977. Although Cleveland: NOW! met many of its initial goals, the organization ceased activities for the most part after 1970, and was formally dissolved in 1980. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, minutes, board of trustees records, correspondence, financial records, records of the major programs, publicity information, newspaper clippings, and proceedings of lawsuits. The collection pertains to a dramatic, multiracial attempt on a large scale to address and ameliorate a wide range of social ills by initial infusions of large amounts of money. The financial records and contributors correspondence contain detailed information for a possible demographic examination of contributors to the program. | | | | Call #: | MS 4501 | | | | Extent: | 3.80 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stokes, Carl. | Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. | Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. | Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. | Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation and juvenile delinquency. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. | Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 25 | 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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