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•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.[X]
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. (25)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (12)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. (11)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. (10)
•Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (9)
•African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (7)
•African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (7)
•Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (6)
•Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (6)
•Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (6)
•Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) (5)
•Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (5)
•Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (5)
•African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Karamu House. (4)
•Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (4)
•African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (3)
•African Americans -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. (3)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. (3)
•Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Discrimination in housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. (3)
•National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. (3)
•Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
•Stokes, Carl. (3)
•Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. (2)
•African American aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. (2)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. (2)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. (2)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. (2)
•Afro-American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. (2)
•Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (2)
•Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Citizens' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Civil rights -- United States. (2)
•Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio). City Council. (2)
•Cleveland (Ohio). Municipal Court. (2)
•Cleveland Transit System. (2)
•Collective labor agreements -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Forbes, George L., 1931- (2)
•Freemasons. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge (Cleveland, Ohio) (2)
•Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) (2)
•Gilpin Players. (2)
•Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. (2)
•Horton, James, 1934- (2)
•Hough Area Development Corporation. (2)
•Housing rehabilitation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986. (2)
•Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. (2)
•Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. (2)
•Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•National Urban League. (2)
•Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland (2)
•Race relations and the press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Rural-urban migration -- United States. (2)
•School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. (2)
•Sermons, American -- African American authors. (2)
•Service industries workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Silver, Dorothy, 1929- (2)
•Silver, Reuben, 1925- (2)
•Social action -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Social work with African Americans. (2)
•Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Urban League of Cleveland. (2)
•Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•White, Charles William, 1897-1970. (2)
•White, Stella G., 1907-1991. (2)
•Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. (2)
•Women in community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
•Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Adult education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Affirmative action programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Africa American women authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American Unitarian Universalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American athletes -- Virginia. (1)
•African American authors -- Correspondence. (1)
•African American authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. (1)
•African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•African American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American physicians -- United States. (1)
•African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•African American sailors -- Correspondence. (1)
•African American singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American social workers. (1)
•African American soldiers -- Correspondence. (1)
•African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. (1)
•African American women -- United States. (1)
•African American women public relations personnel. (1)
•African American women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Civil rights (1)
•African Americans -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. (1)
•African Americans -- Mortality -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•African Americans -- Music. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Music. (1)
•African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. (1)
•African Americans -- Relations with Russians. (1)
•African Americans -- Social conditions. (1)
•African Americans -- Virginia -- Norfolk. (1)
•African Americans. (1)
•Afro-American air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American folk art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American women -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Afro-American women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. (1)
•Afro-Americans -- Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•American Cancer Society. (1)
•American Judges Association. (1)
•American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. (1)
•Association of Railroad Union Representatives. (1)
•Authors, American -- Correspondence. (1)
•Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Bailey, Eugene, 1913-1942. (1)
•Bands (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Baylor, Mary Jane. (1)
•Beard, Charles, 1923-1993. (1)
•Bell, Myrtle Johnson, 1895- (1)
•Biggins, Nick. (1)
•Black Folk Art in Cleveland. (1)
•Black Muslims -- Doctrines. (1)
•Black nationalism -- United States. (1)
•Black power -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Blankenship, Wellington, 1894-1972. (1)
•Blue family (1)
•Blythin, Edward, 1884-1958. (1)
•Boycott -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. (1)
•Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charitable contributions. (1)
•Businessmen's Interracial Committee on Community Affairs (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Camp Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. (1)
•Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Case Western Reserve University. (1)
•Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery -- Exhibitions. (1)
•Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Charities, Medical -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, 1858-1932. (1)
•Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Church and social problems -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Civil rights movements -- United States. (1)
•Civil rights workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. (1)
•Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Clergy -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. (1)
•Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- 20th century. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Economic aspects. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio). City Planning Commission. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities. (1)
•Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor. (1)
•Cleveland Health Care Alternatives, Inc. (1)
•Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. (1)
•Cleveland Women's Orchestra. (1)
•Cleveland: NOW! (1)
•Cleveland: NOW! -- Archives. (1)
•Collective labor agreements -- Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Collective labor agreements -- Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Collective labor agreements -- Service industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Collins, Benjamin. (1)
•Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Congress of Racial Equality (1)
•Congress of Racial Equality. Cleveland Chapter (1)
•Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Crime prevention -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Citizen participation. (1)
•Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Crosby Furniture Company. (1)
•Crosby, Fred McClellan, 1928- (1)
•Dance -- United States. (1)
•Dance companies -- United States. (1)
•Darr, Jane Lee, 1925-2006 (1)
•Darr, Jane Lee. (1)
•Davenport, Peggy. (1)
•Davis family. (1)
•Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976. (1)
•Dawson County (Ga.). (1)
•Discrimination in employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Discrimination in housing -- Law and legislation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Dobbins, Helen. (1)
•Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. (1)
•E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Eddy Road Street Club (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Eddy Road Street Club. (1)
•Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio) Auxiliary II. (1)
•Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Elks (Fraternal Order) (1)
•Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. (1)
•Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity. Cleveland Chapter -- Archives. (1)
•Evans, Fred (Fred Ahmed), d.1978. (1)
•Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Fashion shows -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Fast food restaurants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Federation for Community Planning. (1)
•Fenn College. (1)
•Fisk University. (1)
•Fleming, Charles, W., 1928-1994. (1)
•Forest City Hospital. (1)
•Former Junior Federation (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Franchises (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Freedom Fighters of Ohio (1)
•Freemasonry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Friends of Shaker Square. (1)
•Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Future Outlook League. (1)
•Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Garvin, Charles Herbert, 1890-1968. (1)
•George, Zelma Watson (1)
•German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Glenco Enterprises, Inc. (1)
•Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Glenville Health Association (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Gospel music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Gospel musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation. (1)
•Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum (1)
•Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Hall, Ruby. (1)
•Halle Bros. Co. (1)
•Harmon, J.D. (1)
•Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Health planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Homeowners' associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Hough Area Partners in Progress. (1)
•Humanist Fellowship of Liberation (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. (1)
•Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Institute of Man and Science. (1)
•Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Job creation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. (1)
•Journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. (1)
•Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. (1)
•Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Karamu Foundation. (1)
•Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. (1)
•Knoxville College. (1)
•Koiner, Robert S., 1904- (1)
•Labor disputes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Labor movement -- United States. (1)
•Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Lard, Pearkine. (1)
•Law -- United States. (1)
•Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•League Park Center (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- (1)
•Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Lucas, Charles P., Jr. (1)
•Lyons, Frank, 1894-1974. (1)
•Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza Corporation. (1)
•McDonald's Corporation. (1)
•McIntyre, Dianne. (1)
•McIntyre, Dorothy Layne. (1)
•Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Medicine. (1)
•Men -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Minority business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Mitchell, L. Pearl, 1883-1974. (1)
•Moon family. (1)
•Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- (1)
•Moon, Joseph Herbert. (1)
•Moon, Leah. (1)
•Moon, Mollie Lewis. (1)
•Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. (1)
•Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963. (1)
•Moss, Jim. (1)
•Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (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)
•National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs. Cleveland Club. (1)
•National Bar Association. (1)
•Near West Side Multi-Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Norfolk Naval Shipyard. (1)
•North Coast Village Steering Committee. (1)
•Norton, James Adolph, 1922- (1)
•Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Nursing homes -- Ohio --Elyria. (1)
•Operation Black Unity. (1)
•Operation Equality. (1)
•Oral histories. (1)
•Organists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Pennybacker, Albert M., ca. 1930- (1)
•Perry, Charles, 1917- (1)
•Perry, Samuel V., 1895-1968. (1)
•Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•Picketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Political clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Poor -- Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Porter, Roderick Boyd. (1)
•Professional associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Episcopal Church. (1)
•Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Recreation and juvenile delinquency. (1)
•Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Republican Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) (1)
•Retail trade -- Employees. (1)
•Rural-urban migration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Safety education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Service industries workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Sissle, Noble, 1889- (1)
•Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Smith (Dorothy E.) family. (1)
•Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. (1)
•Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Sociology. (1)
•Sounds in Motion. (1)
•Spiritual Five Singers. (1)
•St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•St. Timothy Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio). (1)
•Stokes family (1)
•Stokes, Carl (1)
•Stokes, Louis (1)
•Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Summons, Berton, 1907-1992. (1)
•Summons, Theresa Edwards, 1903-1985. (1)
•Sweet, Dovie Davis. (1)
•Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Taylor family. (1)
•Taylor, Arthur, 1903-1974. (1)
•Taylor, Bruce C., 1942- (1)
•Taylor, Howard Francis, 1939- (1)
•Taylor, Murtis Howard. (1)
•Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Towns, Mickey. (1)
•Trade-unions -- Building-service employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Trade-unions -- Service industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Traffic signs and signals. (1)
•Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. North Coast Chapter. (1)
•Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland (1)
•Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Unitarians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•United Freedom Movement (1)
•United States -- Race relations. (1)
•United States. CSA/Office of Community Services. (1)
•United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. (1)
•Urban League of Cleveland -- Archives. (1)
•Wagner, Albert. (1)
•Warner, Marguerite Sanford, 1890-1978. (1)
•Water tunnels -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Accidents. (1)
•Weeden family. (1)
•Weeden, John T., Sr., 1901-1988. (1)
•Welch, Marcella. (1)
•White family. (1)
•White, Charles W., 1897-1970. (1)
•William Bingham Foundation. (1)
•Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Women -- Services for -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women -- Social conditions. (1)
•Women -- Societies and clubs. (1)
•Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women journalists -- Georgia -- Dawsonville. (1)
•Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio) (1)
•World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
•Yarbrough family. (1)
•Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland -- Archives. (1)
•Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Recreation. (1)
•Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
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1Title:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project Records     
 Creator:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project 
 Dates:  1995-1996 
 Abstract:  In Their Own Words: An Oral History Project was conducted in 1995-1996 by the African American Archives Auxiliary Youth Advisory Council and supported by the African American Archives Auxiliary of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The project was funded with grants from the Cleveland Indians and Zapis Communications. Interviews with nineteen African American individuals of diverse backgrounds from the northeastern Ohio area were conducted by high school students Jamar Doyle, Tiffany Haddon, and Amy Worthy. The collection consists of an overall report on the project by coordinator Patricia A. Miles Ashford, individual reports by the student interviewers, and transcripts of the interviews. Those interviewed include Leon Bibb, William F. Boyd, Ernestine Brown, William Grace, Anthony Gray, Kenny Gray, Lomax Gray, Floyd Hoiston, Angeline Jeter, Samuel Jethroe, John D. McClindon, Jr., Louis Naylor, Harry Robinson, Charles Sallee, Jr., Glen Shumate, Harold Thomas, Owen Lynn Tolliver, Jr., and Ernest Williams. 
 Call #:  MS 4746 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography.
 
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2Title:  Reverend Wade H. and Mrs. Ruth B. McKinney Papers     
 Creator:  McKinney, Wade H. and Ruth B. 
 Dates:  1898-1966 
 Abstract:  Reverend Wade H. McKinney was pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (1928-1962). He and his wife, Ruth Berry McKinney, were active in numerous church and civic organizations and in the affairs of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, sermons, speeches, "Thot-O-Grams," financial, printed and miscellaneous papers, and papers relating to Antioch Baptist Church. 
 Call #:  MS 3549 
 Extent:  6.50 linear feet (16 containers and 1 oversize package) 
 Subjects:  African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clergymen's wives -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sermons, American -- African American authors. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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3Title:  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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4Title:  Charles Herbert Garvin Papers     
 Creator:  Garvin, Charles Herbert 
 Dates:  1909-1965 
 Abstract:  Charles Herbert Garvin (1890-1968) was an African American physician, civic leader and author in Cleveland, Ohio. He worked for the advancement of Blacks in the medical profession and in Cleveland social structure. the collection consists of letters, speeches, magazine articles, newspaper clippings and research notes relating to Dr. Garvin, Black physicians in Cleveland and the United States, and various medical subjects. 
 Call #:  MS 3328 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  Garvin, Charles Herbert, 1890-1968. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American physicians -- United States. | Medicine.
 
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5Title:  St. James A M E Church Oral History Project Interviews     
 Creator:  St. James A M E Church 
 Dates:  1986-1987 
 Abstract:  The St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Oral History Project Interviews was a venture of the church membership to conduct and transcribe oral history interviews with current and former members of the Cleveland, Ohio, church. It also included residents of the Fairfax community. It was sponsored by the church's Sadie J. Anderson Missionary Society and was funded in part by the Ohio Humanities Council. The goals of the project were to examine the role of the family and elderly in the African American community, the place of the church in the community and family life, and the function of the community over time. Forty-one men and women participated in the interview process. A public conference was held in 1986 as part of the project. The collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted with individuals who were or had been members of the congregation of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and/or residents of the Fairfax area; a final report on the project; publications; and newspaper clippings. 
 Call #:  MS 4536 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rural-urban migration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
 
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6Title:  John T. Weeden Sr. Family Papers     
 Creator:  Weeden, John T. Family 
 Dates:  1922-1994 
 Abstract:  John T. Weeden, Sr. was a prominent African-American Baptist minister in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Indiana Central College, Butler University, Moody Bible Institute, and Case Western Reserve University. He was ordained in 1928. Reverend Weeden married the former Gladys Mae Evans in 1922. After serving as pastor at two churches in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was called in 1948 to St. Timothy Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, remaining there until his death in 1988. In addition to his extensive involvement in a number of Baptist and religious organizations, Weeden was involved in civil rights and political issues, including service as co-chair of the clergy committee for Carl Stokes during the mayoral campaign of 1967. The collection consists of church programs, bulletins, brochures, bylaws, minutes, reports, sermons, certificates, cards, correspondence, memorabilia, datebooks, telegrams, financial and family records, registers, notes, speeches, lessons, postcards, passports, books, obituaries, and newspaper clippings. In addition to family-related documents, the collection includes extensive material related to St. Timothy Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Call #:  MS 4789 
 Extent:  1.60 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  Weeden, John T., Sr., 1901-1988. | Weeden family. | St. Timothy Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | African American Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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7Title:  Charles W. White Papers     
 Creator:  White, Charles W. 
 Dates:  1920-1970 
 Abstract:  Charles W. White (1897-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who became Assistant Law Director for Cleveland (1933-1955) and Common Pleas Court judge (1955-1970). He was active in African American rights organizations and civic affairs. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, awards, certificates, legal files, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to the public and personal life of Judge White and to his activities as a member of the Urban League, NAACP, ACLU, Consumers League, East End Community Center, Karamu House, and Friends of the Cleveland Public Library. 
 Call #:  MS 3521 
 Extent:  25.61 linear feet (58 containers, 6 oversize volumes, 2 oversize folders, and 1 roll) 
 Subjects:  White, Charles William, 1897-1970. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Social conditions. | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. | Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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8Title:  Lolette and George Hanserd Papers     
 Creator:  Hanserd, Lolette and George 
 Dates:  1939-1984 
 Abstract:  George and Lolette Hanserd were well known in the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community for their professional contributions, respectively, in podiatry and social work. In 1952 Lolette began working for the Welfare Federation of Cleveland as a member of the Group Services Council. In 1965 she was named director of a four-year project to improve interracial and intercultural relations for the Federation, after which she became director of the Human Relations Department. In 1971 her position was expanded to include associate director of the Federation of Community Planning, the new name adopted by the Welfare Federation that same year. One year later she became the first black to be named social worker of the year by the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Lolette retired from the Federation in 1984. The collection consists of Lolette's professional papers from the Federation for Community Planning, as well as some personal papers of both Lolette and George. The collection pertains primarily to Lolette Hanserd's civic activities and, to a much lesser degree, to George Hanserd's medical career in Cleveland. 
 Call #:  MS 4236 
 Extent:  1.40 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with African Americans. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
 
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9Title:  Eugene Bailey Papers     
 Creator:  Bailey, Eugene 
 Dates:  1938-1946 
 Abstract:  Eugene Bailey was an African American from Cleveland, Ohio, who attended Virginia State College for Negroes, excelling in athletics. Bailey became physical education director at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Va. and then enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II. In 1942, he was killed in an explosion at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The collection includes correspondence, certificates, memorabilia, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the life and death of Bailey, especially as a youth and young adult during the Great Depression. 
 Call #:  MS 4440 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Bailey, Eugene, 1913-1942. | Norfolk Naval Shipyard. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Virginia -- Norfolk. | African American athletes -- Virginia. | African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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10Title:  Spiritual Five Singers Records     
 Creator:  Spiritual Five Singers 
 Dates:  1947-1991 
 Abstract:  The Spiritual Five Singers were organized in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. The gospel music group emerged from the Golden Star Singers of York, Alabama, that performed in the late 1940s. The original members of the Spiritual Five were Johnny, Nathan, and Willie Yarbrough, Willie Samuels, and H.J. Wynn. The group performed in churches, nursing homes, hospitals, and prisons. In 1975, the group began to sponsor an annual Cancer Gospel-Thon, benefiting the American Cancer Society. The collection consists of written histories, minutes, correspondence, programs, original compositions, newspaper clippings, certificates, and awards. 
 Call #:  MS 4607 
 Extent:  0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Yarbrough family. | Spiritual Five Singers. | American Cancer Society. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Music. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Music. | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gospel music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gospel musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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11Title:  L. Pearl Mitchell Papers     
 Creator:  Mitchell, L. Pearl 
 Dates:  1875-1970 
 Abstract:  L. Pearl Mitchell (1883-1974) was a Cleveland, Ohio, civil rights activist. She served as national Vice-President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1936-1937). The collection consists of correspondence; Dr. Samuel Mitchell's license, sermons, and speeches; editions of The Wilberforce Graduate, 2 copies of The Ohio Book for the Lincoln Jubilee, pamphlets and printed material from the NAACP, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority pamphlets, Mt. Zion Congregational Church Building Fund records, F.E.P.C. financial reports, a copy of The Long Moment by Jo Sinclair, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home financial records and trustees' minutes, Women's Council reports to the Cleveland Mental Health Association, Cleveland Job Corps for Women materials, biographical material on Mrs. Mitchell, news clippings, awards, pamphlets, brochures, and a copy of A Half Century of Freedom of the Negro in Ohio by W.A. Joiner. 
 Call #:  MS 3533 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (3 containers) 
 Subjects:  Mitchell, L. Pearl, 1883-1974. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sermons, American -- African American authors.
 
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12Title:  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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13Title:  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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14Title:  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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15Title:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver Papers     
 Creator:  Silver, Reuben and Dorothy 
 Dates:  1949-1975 
 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. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, newspaper clippings, publications, playscripts, 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. 
 Call #:  MS 4533 
 Extent:  0.80 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- | Karamu House. | 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. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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16Title:  Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II Records     
 Creator:  Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II 
 Dates:  1954-1992 
 Abstract:  The Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II, formerly known as the Junior Board of the Eliza Bryant Center, was a group founded by African American women in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. Organized by Bessie Blue, it was to provide residents of the Eliza Bryant Center, a home for the African American elderly, with a cheerful and homelike atmosphere. Members of the Auxiliary raised funds to purchase items and supplies such as kitchen equipment, linen, beds, carpeting, and electronics. The collection consists of codes of regulation, constitutions, historical data, minutes, correspondence, financial statements and reports, rosters, Christmas Mart and other program documents, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, proclamations, and resolutions. The collection pertains largely to fundraising events sponsored by the Auxiliary, one of of the best known being the annual Christmas Mart. 
 Call #:  MS 4637 
 Extent:  0.40 linear feet (2 containers) 
 Subjects:  Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio) Auxiliary II. | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | African American aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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17Title:  Reuben and Dorothy Silver Papers, Series II     
 Creator:  Silver, Reuben and Dorothy 
 Dates:  1915-1991 
 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. The collection consists of audition notices, correspondence, index card notes for a dissertation on Karamu House, Karamu House 75th Anniversary materials, a program manuscript, magazines, newsletters, newspaper clippings, obituaries, play reviews, press releases, theater and workshop programs, minutes, reports, cast and crew lists, play posters, program schedules, and memorabilia. 
 Call #:  MS 4643 
 Extent:  0.70 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- | Karamu House. | 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. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
 
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18Title:  E. F. Boyd and Son Funeral Home Records, Series II     
 Creator:  E. F. Boyd and Son Funeral Home 
 Dates:  1919-1987 
 Abstract:  E. F. Boyd and Son Funeral Home is one of the oldest African American funeral homes in Cleveland, Ohio. Known earlier as Boyd's Funeral Home, the name was changed to E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home in 1938 when William F. Boyd joined his father, Elmer Franklin Boyd, in the business. Branches were opened in East Cleveland, Ohio in 1972, and in Warrensville Heights, Ohio in 1996. They arranged the funerals of many of Cleveland's most prominent citizens, white and black, as well as lesser known individuals. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, funeral books, and notes. The funeral books comprise the bulk of the collection and include name, age, cause of death, date of funeral, type of casket, place of death, birth date, spouse's name, parents' names and cost of arrangements. The collection is of value to those researching the funeral business in Cleveland, Ohio, particularly that of Boyd Funeral Home, as well as those interested in genealogy, mortality and occupational information on African Americans in Cleveland. click here to view the searchable index to the funeral records contained in this collection 
 Call #:  MS 4908 
 Extent:  15.50 linear feet (15 containers and 3 oversize volumes) 
 Subjects:  E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | African Americans -- Mortality -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
 
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19Title:  Garrett A. Morgan Papers     
 Creator:  Morgan, Garrett A. 
 Dates:  1894-1970 
 Abstract:  Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was an entrepreneur and inventor whose inventions included the electric traffic signal and the gas mask. Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 and opened his own sewing machine sales and repair shop in 1907. He received a patent on his gas mask in 1912 and formed the National Safety Device Co. to manufacture and market it. He also established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Co., The Cleveland Call and Post, and the Wakeman Country Club for African Americans. The collection consists of correspondence, legal and business papers, drawings of the traffic signal, a hair straightening device and an automatic cooker, maps, blueprints and floorplans of Morgan's properties, biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, and material relating to Morgan's role in the waterworks crib explosion, the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Co., the National Safety Device Co., and the Wakeman Country Club. 
 Call #:  MS 3534 
 Extent:  0.70 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Water tunnels -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Accidents. | Traffic signs and signals.
 
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20Title:  Perry B. Jackson Papers     
 Creator:  Jackson, Perry B. 
 Dates:  1879-1973 
 Abstract:  Perry B. Jackson (1896-1986) was Ohio's first African American judge. He was active in Cleveland, Ohio civic, religious, and educational organizations. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, programs, speeches, financial material, personnel lists, bench notes, judicial election material, and other material relating to Judge Jackson and his judicial, church and civic activities. 
 Call #:  MS 3581 
 Extent:  7.81 linear feet (19 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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