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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 101 | Title: | Charles Perry Papers
| | | | Creator: | Perry, Charles | | | | Dates: | 1964-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Perry, a trained musician from Cleveland, Ohio, wrote and composed "The Kennedy Prayer," a dedicatory to John F. Kennedy upon the occasion of the latter's assassination in 1963. Copies of the song were sent to Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and entertainers, government officials, and heads of state. A copy of the song is also housed in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. The collection consists of letters and cards acknowledging receipt of "The Kennedy Prayer," as well as a proclamation and a photograph. | | | | Call #: | MS 4690 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Perry, Charles, 1917- | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 102 | 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* | | 103 | Title: | Congress of Racial Equality, Cleveland Chapter Records
| | | | Creator: | Congress of Racial Equality, Cleveland Chapter | | | | Dates: | 1960-1969 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was chartered in March 1963. As a chapter of the national organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942, the Cleveland Chapter of CORE has used direct action to bring about dignity, freedom, justice, and equality for the oppressed and dispossessed people of Cleveland. While primarily working in the African American community, CORE has worked for the political, economic, and social changes necessary to improve the conditions that cause racial inequality and poverty. The collection consists of agendas, brochures, budgets, constitutions, correspondence, event notices, fact sheets, financial statements, flyers, guides, histories, lists, membership cards, minutes, news releases, newspaper clippings, notes, outlines, policy statements, programs, proposals, publications, reports, speeches, and tickets. | | | | Call #: | MS 5174 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. | Congress of Racial Equality | Congress of Racial Equality. Cleveland Chapter | Freedom Fighters of Ohio | United Freedom Movement
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 104 | Title: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church | | | | Dates: | 1954-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church was founded in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927. The church outgrew several locations on Cleveland's east side until building its church on property purchased at 7510 Woodland Avenue in 1969. The collection consists of agendas, anniversary booklets, anniversary programs, annual reports, budgets, by-laws, church covenants, constitutions, a directory, event flyers, financial reports, funeral programs, a history book, letters, minutes, and newsletters. | | | | Call #: | MS 5217 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Hill, David W. | Hill, Luther F. | Mount Sinai Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 106 | Title: | Reuben and Dorothy Silver Karamu Collection
| | | | Creator: | Gift of Dorothy Silver | | | | Dates: | 1915-2016 | | | | Abstract: | Reuben and Dorothy Silver were active in Karamu House, a performing arts center and theater, founded in 1915 as an interracial social settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. During their tenure, the Silvers were instrumental in presenting works by African American authors such as Langston Hughes and LeRoi Jones, as well as classics from the American theater. Urban unrest in the community surrounding Karamu and the growing popularity of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s forced a reconsideration of Karamu's goals as they related to interracial theater. During this period, Karamu endured major personnel and financial crises. After leaving Karamu, Reuben served as the chairman of Cleveland State University's theatre department for seventeen years (1976-1993). Reuben and Dorothy remained active in the theatre community. The collection consists of advertisements, correspondence, documents, directors notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, press releases, reports, scripts, speeches and miscellaneous printed material including Karamu publications, workshop schedules, programs, and handbills. Most of the material contained in this collection is concerned with Karamu House and the Silvers' roles there as Theater Director and Theater Assistant from 1955-1976. The collection also includes material related to finding a replacement executive director for Reuben and Reuben's work after leaving Karamu, and letters to family members in Israel. | | | | Call #: | MS 5438 | | | | Extent: | 16.81 linear feet (22 containers, including five oversized boxes and one oversized folder) | | | | Subjects: | Karamu Theatre | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History | Community theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929-
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 107 | 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* | | 108 | Title: | Samuel V. Perry Papers
| | | | Creator: | Perry, Samuel V. | | | | Dates: | 1914-1967 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel V. Perry (1895-1968) was a Cleveland, Ohio, parole officer, City Streets Department clerk, and information consultant who was involved in safety education and the legal affairs of the African American community. The collection consist of correspondence, material relating to the court case Haring v. Gist, papers on the American legal system and African Americans, an outline for a teacher's textbook on safety education, and plans for an adult education program. | | | | Call #: | MS 3327 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Perry, Samuel V., 1895-1968. | Cleveland (Ohio). Municipal Court. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Law -- United States. | Safety education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Adult education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 110 | Title: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged Records
| | | | Creator: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged | | | | Dates: | 1898-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged was the first retirement home for elderly African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1896, by Eliza Bryant, and called the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People. In 1960 it was renamed the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged. The collection consists of records of patients, guests, and membership, Board of Trustees' minutes, Secretary's record of correspondence, Board of Lady Managers' financial records, constitutions, by-laws, receipts, cancelled checks, and a history of the Home by Helen Smith. | | | | Call #: | MS 3532 | | | | Extent: | 4.20 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | African American aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Benevolent and moral institutions and societies. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 111 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1910-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Lee Moon was public relations director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its New York headquarters (1948-1960). Mollie Lewis Moon, his wife, was a social worker, 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). Roddy K. Moon (1868-1952) was an organizer of the Cleveland chapter of the NAACP. The collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, book reviews, speeches, press releases and reports relating to Henry and Mollie Lewis Moon, and letters, photographs, accounts, receipts, anniversary cards, garden club programs, and clippings relating to the gardening interests of Mr. and Mrs. Roddy K. Moon and to other members of the Moon family. | | | | Call #: | MS 3628 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African American social workers.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 113 | Title: | Elks Great Lakes Regional Oratorical Contest Records
| | | | Creator: | Elks Great Lakes Regional Oratorical Contest | | | | Dates: | 1951-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of typewritten copies of speeches given by high school students in the Elks Regional (Great Lakes) Oratorical Contest, 1951-1973. Also included are a 1954 budget report and a blank contest questionnaire, ca. 1970. The speeches treat various themes in the history of African Americans in the United States. | | | | Call #: | MS 3685 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- History. | Oratory -- Competitions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 114 | Title: | Paul Hill Jr. Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hill Jr., Paul | | | | Dates: | 1976-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Paul Hill, Jr. (1945 - ) is a civic leader, social worker, author, publisher, educator, researcher, and founder of the Rites of Passage Program and the Greater Cleveland Kwanzaa Alliance. The collection consists of an agenda, articles, awards and recognitions, brochure and information sheet related to the Rites of Passage Program, a business card, calendars, correspondence, a diary, drawings, fliers, a guidebook entitled "Transformation: A guide for Adulthood Development", a handbook entitled "Youth Opportunities Unlimited 1988 Community Project Handbook", invitations, letters, a manual entitled "Rites of Passage Forward to the Past: Adolescent Rites of Passage”, meeting minutes, memos, newsletters, newspaper clippings, news releases, notes, poems, program booklets, proposal applications, reading material entitled "Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice", reports and budget related to the Greater Cleveland Kwanzaa Alliance, and syllabuses and class schedules. | | | | Call #: | MS 5485 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African American civic leaders -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Civic leaders -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 115 | Title: | George A. Myers Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Myers, George A. | | | | Dates: | 1912-1923 | | | | Abstract: | George A. Myers (1859-1930) was the owner of the Hollenden Barber Shop, which became his steppingstone into Republican politics in the 1890s, Myers became an influential African American politician and civic leader in Cleveland, Ohio, and a close ally to Marcus Hanna. Myers was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892, 1896, and 1900 and was instrumental in the development of the McKinley-Hanna organization and in the election of Hanna to the United States Senate. During the 1920s, Myers adopted a new tone of militancy in racial matters. The collection consists of correspondence between Myers and James Ford Rhodes, businessman and historian. Contains comments and opinions on contemporary political issues and notable public figures (Theodore Roosevelt, Marcus A. Hanna, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson). | | | | Call #: | MS 1199 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Myers, George A., 1859-1930. | Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 1837-1904. | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. | Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930. | Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Correspondence. | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 116 | 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 | Requires cookie* | | 117 | Title: | Dovie Davis Sweet Papers
| | | | Creator: | Sweet, Dovie Davis | | | | Dates: | 1935-1982 | | | | Abstract: | Dovie Davis Sweet was a primary teacher in the Cleveland Public Schools, author, and active member of the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. She wrote "Red light, green light", a children's book about Clevelander Garrett Morgan, and was active in many community groups. She helped organize the Glenville Area Community Council, Parkgate Avenue Street Club, East 111th Street Club, and the Retired Teachers' Union. She served as vice-president of the Cleveland Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and helped with its membership drive, Freedom Fund dinner, march on Washington, and discrimination surveys. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, files on the writing and promotion of "Red light, green light", clippings, and subject files, including those for the NAACP, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, Florida Club, Delta Sigma Theta Club, and St. John's A.M.E. Church. | | | | Call #: | MS 4204 | | | | Extent: | 1.70 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Sweet, Dovie Davis. | Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 118 | Title: | League Park Center Records
| | | | Creator: | League Park Center | | | | Dates: | 1952-1970 | | | | Abstract: | League Park Center, Inc. (f. 1949), located in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was started by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland with two social workers in the old business office of League Park (6601 Lexington Ave.), with additional facilities at nearby Dunham Church of Christ. The Center has always had close ties with the Neighborhood Settlement Association, the Center focusing on the "development of Cleveland's inner city youth," with such programs as Headstart and athletic activities. The Center's other interests included improvement of the neighborhood and encouragement of street clubs, which worked for block and street preservation and sometimes promoted youth activities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, a code of regulations, minutes, annual reports, correspondence, legal and financial papers, project reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets and posters published by the corporation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4238 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | League Park Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with African Americans. | Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 119 | Title: | Charles W. Fleming Papers
| | | | Creator: | Fleming, Charles W. | | | | Dates: | 1943-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Charles W. Fleming was a Cleveland, Ohio, Municipal Court Judge, an Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, a special assistant to the Attorney General of the State of Ohio, senior partner of the Fleming, Hubbard, and Davis Law Firm in Cleveland, and a professor at Case Western Reserve University. Fleming was also involved in Masonry. The collection consists of agendas, certificates, correspondence, biographies, court cases, newsletters, booklets, newspaper clippings, lists, financial statements, minutes, schedules, reports, notes, pamphlets, programs, and resolutions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4804 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Fleming, Charles, W., 1928-1994. | American Judges Association. | National Bar Association. | Cleveland (Ohio). Municipal Court. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 120 | 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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