| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Phillis Wheatley Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Phillis Wheatley Association | | | | Dates: | 1911-1960 | | | | Abstract: | The Phillis Wheatley Association is a Cleveland, Ohio, self-help organization designed to help young African American women adjust to city life. It was organized in 1911 by Jane Edna Hunter and originally called the Working Girls Home Association. Services included a boarding house, homemaking classes, and recreational, literary and social activities. The collection consists of financial and committee reports, minutes, financial statements, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, printed brochures, speeches, and correspondence. | | | | Call #: | MS 3527 | | | | Extent: | 13.60 linear feet (36 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Working class women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women -- Services for -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Day care centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Theresa Edwards Summons Papers
| | | | Creator: | Summons, Theresa Edwards | | | | Dates: | 1921-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Theresa Edwards Summons moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932 to live and work out of the Phillis Wheatley Association residence. She was employed as a maid, servant, and laborer. In 1934, she married Berton Summons. He worked as a bellman, and later as a real estate broker with an office in the Lee-Harvard community of Cleveland. The collection consists of personal letters, correspondence, telegraphs, a booklet, newspaper clippings, and notes. | | | | Call #: | MS 4742 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Summons, Theresa Edwards, 1903-1985. | Summons, Berton, 1907-1992. | Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American women -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Services for -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland, Inc. Records
| | | | Creator: | Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1917-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland opened its first clinic on March 20, 1928 in theOsborn Building, located at Huron Road and Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Before the organization was recognized for its affiliation with Planned Parenthood Federation of American Inc., it was known as the Maternal Health Center. The center was started by Dorothy Hamilton Brush, Katherine Bingham Fisher and Hortense Oliver Shepard, a group of women who wanted to help families who needed birth control services for social and economic reasons. When the organization first began, services were only available to married women. As the organization grew, however, so did the number of services it offered. By 1965, the organization had added a west side branch, a fertility clinic, and a "mobile unit" that dispersed various maternal health services around the Cleveland area. In 1966, the Maternal Health Association changed its name to Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland (PPGC). Today the organization has been expanded to six different locations in Greater Cleveland and offers a variety of services including contraceptives, disease prevention education, pregnancy testing, HIV testing, and health services to men. The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, financial documents, meeting minutes, talks, educational pamphlets, press releases, event invitations, essays, newsletters, research reports, progress reports, and annual reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 4982 | | | | Extent: | 5.01 linear feet (3 containers, 1 oversize folder and 18 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Birth control -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Birth control clinics -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Birth control. | Family planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Family planning | Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Services for -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's health services -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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