| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie Holloway Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Holloway, Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie | | | | Dates: | 1907-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Cynthia Moultrie Holloway (1912-1994) taught in the Cleveland Public Schools for over thirty years. She was a teacher at Rutherford B. Hayes, Kinsman, and Anton Grdina schools. She traveled throughout the world as a delegate to conferences of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession, including Australia, England, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil. She held leadership positions in thirty Ohio Education assemblies and served for eight years on the Ohio Education Association's Human Relations Committee. Her husband Edward L. Holloway (1910-1985) was a industrial arts teacher at several Cleveland Public Schools who served in leadership capacities in the North Eastern Ohio Teachers Association and the Ohio Education Association. The Holloways were among the first African American teachers to serve in leadership positions within the Ohio Education Association. The collection consists of scrapbooks that contain biographies, certificates, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and ephemera. | | | | Call #: | MS 5317 | | | | Extent: | 2.41 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Myrtle Johnson Bell Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bell, Myrtle Johnson | | | | Dates: | 1917-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Myrtle Johnson Bell (1895-1978) was the first African American woman to serve as an assistant high school principal in the Cleveland Public Schools. She also served on the Advisory Board on Playgrounds and Recreation and on the Community Relations Board of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, school and club programs, certificates, a school centennial pamphlet, a play script, dinner programs and guest lists, testimonials, newspaper clippings, a syllabus of "A Short Course in Human Relations for Teen-Agers," and three scrapbooks, relating to Mrs. Bell's career as a teacher (1916-1938) and as an assistant high school principal (1938-1966). | | | | Call #: | MS 3522 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- | African American principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American school superintendents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | High school teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | High school principals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women school administrators -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Bertha Blue Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Blue, Bertha Family | | | | Dates: | 1908-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Bertha Blue was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of Bertha Blue's art course notebook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, St. John African Methodist Episcopal newsletters, scrapbooks, and Jane Lee Darr's resume and writings. The collection also contains newspaper clippings on Blue's friend, Noble Sissle. | | | | Call #: | MS 4630 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. | Darr, Jane Lee. | Sissle, Noble, 1889- | St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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