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Subject | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. |
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| | • | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. |
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| | • | Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights -- United States. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971. |
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| | • | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | White, Stella G., 1907-1991. |
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| | • | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American authors -- History and criticism. |
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| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American sailors -- Correspondence. |
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| | • | African American social workers. |
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| | • | African American soldiers -- Correspondence. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women -- United States. |
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| | • | African American women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women public relations personnel. |
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| | • | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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| | • | African Americans -- History. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. |
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| | • | African Americans. |
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| | • | Afro-American air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Afro-American women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
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| | • | Air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism. |
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| | • | Baylor, Mary Jane. |
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| | • | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. |
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| | • | Case Western Reserve University. |
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| | • | Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Civil rights movements -- United States. |
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| | • | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. |
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| | • | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. |
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| | • | Cleveland Public Schools |
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| | • | Cleveland Women's Orchestra. |
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| | • | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Dance -- United States. |
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| | • | Dance companies -- United States. |
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| | • | Darr, Jane Lee. |
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| | • | Dawson County (Ga.). |
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| | • | Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. |
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| | • | Fire-Baptized Holiness Church |
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| | • | Fisk University. |
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| | • | Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963. |
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| | • | Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | George, Zelma Watson |
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| | • | Gilpin Players. |
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| | • | Halle Bros. Co. |
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| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hough Area Council (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
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| | • | Hutchings, Mary P., 1915-1991. |
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| | • | Jefferson, Annetta. |
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| | • | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. |
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| | • | Journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
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| | • | Knoxville College. |
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| | • | Labor movement -- United States. |
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| | • | LeMoyne-Owen College. |
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| | • | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | McIntyre, Dianne. |
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| | • | McIntyre, Dorothy Layne. |
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| | • | Moon family. |
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| | • | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- |
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| | • | Moon, Joseph Herbert. |
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| | • | Moon, Leah. |
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| | • | Moon, Mollie Lewis. |
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| | • | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. |
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| | • | Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
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| | • | National Urban League. |
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| | • | Organists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Phillis Wheatley Association Foundation. |
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| | • | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1964. |
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| | • | Retail trade -- Employees. |
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| | • | Sissle, Noble, 1889- |
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| | • | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. |
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| | • | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. |
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| | • | Sounds in Motion. |
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| | • | St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl. |
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| | • | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Television scripts. |
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| | • | United States -- History. |
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| | • | United States -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Warner, Marguerite Sanford, 1890-1978. |
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| | • | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. |
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| | • | Women -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Women -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. |
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| | • | Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | George, Dr. Zelma Watson | | | | Dates: | 1881-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 5415 | | | | Extent: | 55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | George, Zelma Watson | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- United States. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | Jane Edna Hunter Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hunter, Jane Edna | | | | Dates: | 1930-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971) was the founder and director of the Phillis Wheatley Association, a residential and training center for African American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, speeches, printed items, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous writings, relating to Mrs. Hunter and the Phillis Wheatley Association. | | | | Call #: | MS 3544 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 5 | Title: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design | | | | Dates: | 1924-1979 | | | | Abstract: | The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of certificates, proclamations and awards related to the education, business, and philanthropic interests of Amanda Wicker, the school's owner. | | | | Call #: | MS 4605 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 6 | Title: | Dorothy E. Smith Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Dorothy E. Family | | | | Dates: | 1865-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, cards, cemetery records, funeral programs, obituaries, legal files, memberships, a deed, certificates, newspaper clippings, student newspapers, playscripts, postcards, programs, reports, receipts, sheet music, yearbooks, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4854 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. | Cleveland Women's Orchestra. | Gilpin Players. | Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Knoxville College. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American soldiers -- Correspondence. | African American sailors -- Correspondence.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 7 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1885-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The Henry Lee Moon family was a prominent twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, African American family involved in civil rights and community organizations. In 1912, Roddy K. Moon helped form the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and served as its founding president 1912-1916. He was also on the board of the Negro Welfare Association, supported the Phillis Wheatley Association, and in 1933 organized the Palmetto Club. His wife, Leah Anna Himes Moon, was a fifty-year member of the Cleveland Branch NAACP, and with her husband was a founding member of the Forest City Garden Club. Roddy and Leah Moon had three surviving children; Joseph Herbert, Ella Elizabeth, and Henry Lee. Ella Moon was a teacher, an active member of the Forest City Garden Club, and was married to Clyde Smith. Henry Lee Moon was a newspaper editor, press relations secretary for Tuskegee Institute (1926-1931), and worked for the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Moon, along with his future wife and other African Americans, traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for consultations concerning a government sponsored film project on the history of black America. From 1938-1944 he was race relations adviser for the Federal Public Housing Authority. He also worked as assistant director to the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was active with the NAACP, becoming its director of public relations in 1948-1960. He was the author of two books; Balance of Power: the Negro Vote (1948) and The Emerging Thought of W.E. B. Dubois (1972). His wife, Mollie Virgil Lewis Moon, was a pharmacist, and later worked as a social worker with the Department of Social Services in New York City. She was also a public relations executive, founder and chairman of the National Urban League Guild (1942-1962), and trustee and secretary of the National Urban League (1955-1962). After World War II, she became involved with the "brown-babies" of Germany campaign, which attempted to provide relief for orphaned or abandoned children of mixed African and European or American ancestry. The collection consists of booklets, cards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, letters, memorandum, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, pamphlets, proposals, speeches, telegrams, published and unpublished writings, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4823 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Joseph Herbert. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Labor movement -- United States. | African American women -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women public relations personnel. | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. | African American social workers. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 8 | Title: | Lethia Cousins Fleming Papers
| | | | Creator: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins | | | | Dates: | 1903-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876-1963) was a teacher from West Virginia who became a social worker for the Division of Child Welfare in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1931-1951). She and her husband, Cleveland city councilman Thomas W. Fleming, were active in local civic and charitable organizations. The collection consists of teaching certificates, certificates of recognition, testimonials, curriculum vitae, real estate account books, travel souvenirs, and newspaper clippings relating to Mrs. Fleming, and records of the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People, its Men's Auxiliary, the Phillis Wheatley Association, and other charitable organizations. | | | | Call #: | MS 3525 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 9 | Title: | Clara P. Smith Papers
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Clara P. | | | | Dates: | 1959-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Clara Pearl Smith (1917-2009) was a civil rights activist and social worker in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. She was president of the East 88th Street Club and the Wade Superior Neighborhood Association and co-founded the the Hough Area Council and the Bell Neighborhood Branch of Gannett Goodrich House. The collection consists of a biography, case studies, certificates, correspondence, a genealogy, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, programs, reports, and song lyrics. | | | | Call #: | MS 5264 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hough Area Council (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland Public Schools | African Americans -- Civil rights.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 10 | Title: | Marguerite Sanford Warner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Warner, Marguerite Sanford | | | | Dates: | 1925-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Marguerite Sanford Warner (1890-1978) devoted her life to music within the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. During her career she gave private lessons in both piano and organ, served as the regular organist for at least five churches in Cleveland, Ohio, including the Antioch Baptist Church from 1934-1944 and 1950-1971, served on the faculty of the Sutphen School of Music at the Phillis Wheatley Association from the 1950s through the 1970s, and made guest appearances throughout the Cleveland area. The collection consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia including programs, certificates and newsletters. The collection pertains primarily to Warner's musical career and involvement in the African American community in Cleveland, particularly through the Antioch Baptist Church and Sutphen School of Music. | | | | Call #: | MS 4217 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Warner, Marguerite Sanford, 1890-1978. | Organists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 11 | Title: | Jane Edna Hunter Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Hunter, Jane Edna | | | | Dates: | 1909-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Jane Edna Hunter was the founder and director of the Phillis Wheatley Association, a residential and training center for African American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, articles of incorporation, invoices, bylaws, checks, correspondence, a datebook, financial records, leases, a medical journal, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, poetry, press releases, receipts, reports, and a scrapbook. The collection primarily contains documents related to the personal business and financial activities of Hunter and the Phillis Wheatley Association Foundation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4867 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Hunter, Jane Edna, 1882-1971. | Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | Phillis Wheatley Association Foundation. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 12 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 13 | Title: | Former Junior Federation Records
| | | | Creator: | Former Junior Federation | | | | Dates: | 1927-1982 | | | | Abstract: | The Former Junior Federation (f. 1927) was an African American women's social club constituted of the former members of the Junior Federation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally called the Gertrude Fisher Club after the founder who molded a group of youngsters into an organization that gathered in each other's homes. The aims of the club were to instill an understanding of the body of culture and thought in the world, to train women to become more efficient club members and better citizens, and to promote service and philanthropy as well as social and cultural interests. In the 1950s they became members of the Council of Colored Women and renamed themselves the Junior Girls Federation. By 1965 they had again changed their name, this time to the Former Junior Federation, but continued their social, civic and friendly activities. The collection consists of a constitution, bylaws, membership rosters, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4235 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Social conditions. | Women -- Societies and clubs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 15 | Title: | Dorothy Layne McIntyre Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | McIntyre, Dorothy Layne Family | | | | Dates: | 1939-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy Layne McIntyre was one of the first African American women to receive a private pilot's license under the Civil Aeronautics Authority. She trained in the cadet flying program while attending West Virginia State College, receiving her pilot's license in 1940. During World War II she taught aircraft mechanics at the War Production Training School in Baltimore, Maryland, while simultaneously working as a secretary in the industrial department of the Baltimore Urban League. In 1942, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and married F. Benjamin McIntyre; they had two daughters, Dianne McIntyre and Donna McIntyre Whyte. The collection consists of photocopies of original pilot log books, publications concerning aeronautics, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. The collection pertains to Doroty McIntyre's career in the aeronautics industry. Also included are articles and other information concerning Dianne McIntyre and her dance group, Sounds in Motion, particularly concerning their production of "Take-Off from a Forced Landing," based on the life of Dorothy McIntyre. | | | | Call #: | MS 4649 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | McIntyre, Dorothy Layne. | McIntyre, Dianne. | Sounds in Motion. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dance companies -- United States. | Dance -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 16 | Title: | Mary P. Hutchings Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hutchings, Mary P. | | | | Dates: | 1931-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Mary P. Hutchings (1915-1991) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney and for ten years the Chief Referee of the Cleveland Civil Service Commission. She was born in Union City, Tennessee. Her family moved to Cleveland and she attended the Cleveland City Schools before graduating from Cleveland Heights High School. She returned to Tennessee and graduated from Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis and later received a graduate degree from Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Science. In 1951 she joined future jurist Lillian Burke as a graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School. In addition to private law practice, Hutchings served as an assistant state attorney general for mental hygiene and corrections and a guidance counselor at the Cleveland Job Corps for Women. In her civic life she served on several boards and was active with the NAACP, Women's City Club, National Association of Black Women Attorneys, Americans for Democratic Action, the Glenville YWCA, the Phillis Wheatley Association, Jack & Jill of America and the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Her local political activism earned her invitations to Lyndon Johnson's 1965 presidential inauguration and state of the union message to Congress. She supported Carl Stokes' 1965 and 1967 mayoral campaigns. She served as a precinct committeewoman for Wards 19 and 25. In 1938 she married George Hutchings and had one son, Phillip. The collection consists of agendas, cards, certificates, correspondence, invitations, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, postcards, proclamations, programs, reports, a resume, speeches, subpoenas, telegrams, and a yearbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 4851 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Hutchings, Mary P., 1915-1991. | Stokes, Carl. | Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). | LeMoyne-Owen College. | African American women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Political activity -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1964. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 17 | Title: | Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson Papers
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks | | | | Dates: | 1948-2010 | | | | Abstract: | Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1904. Orphaned at age four, she was raised by the Davis family. She attended Dallas Colored High School and Fisk University before applying to the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. Johnson graduated in 1928 with a master's degree in social work. As a social worker, Johnson was first employed by Associated Charities of Cleveland, Ohio. Later, she worked for the Cuyahoga County Department of Welfare in conjunction with the federal program Aid to Dependent Children. She retired in 1961. Johnson married Elmer Cheeks in 1929. They had two sons. Cheeks died in 1941, and Johnson married Raymond Johnson in 1957. He died in 1983. Mrs. Johnson was an active member of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, an avid reader and traveler, and a supporter of a variety of charities. At age 105, she attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Soon after, with the assistance of a freelance writer, she wrote her autobiography. It was published shortly after her death in 2010. The collection consists of annual reports, booklets, book manuscripts, book proofs, brochures, catalogues, certificates, church directories, citations, correspondence, forms, a guest book, an inauguration ticket, lists, magazine articles, newsletter articles, newspaper articles, notes, passports, proclamations, programs, remarks, speeches, and writings. | | | | Call #: | MS 5068 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. | Case Western Reserve University. | Fisk University. | Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- United States. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 18 | Title: | Stella G. White Papers
| | | | Creator: | White, Stella G. | | | | Dates: | 1941-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Stella G. White (1907-1991) was a freelance journalist and leader in Cleveland, Ohio, mass transit and interracial community relations. She served on the Community Relations Board, the Council on Human Relations, and the Board of the Cleveland Transit System. She was a columnist for the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of certificates, clippings, correspondence, columns, memorabilia, speeches, American Transit Association files, and Cleveland Transit System files. | | | | Call #: | MS 4113 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | White, Stella G., 1907-1991. | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 19 | Title: | Stella G. White Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | White, Stella G. | | | | Dates: | 1943-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Stella G. White was a free lance journalist, columnist for the Plain Dealer newspaper, and community leader in Cleveland, Ohio. Married first to Judge Charles W. White of Cleveland, she later became the wife of Curtis Lamar Bigham and resided in Dawsonville, Georgia. While in Dawsonville, she was a columnist for The Forum. She was instrumental in the Dawson County, Georgia, courthouse renovation project, and active in the Dawson County Women's Club. The collection consists of resumes, certificates, columns, newspaper clippings, correspondence, military documents, speeches, genealogical materials, book manuscripts, cancer research material, and memorabilia. These papers pertain primarily to White's career as a free lance journalist for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, and as a columnist for The Forum in Dawsonville, Georgia. It also includes some of her other writings. Most of her columns centered around the subject of race relations, housing, legislation, and health care. | | | | Call #: | MS 4638 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Stella G., 1907-1991. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. | Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Dawson County (Ga.).
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