Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Administrative agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Records and correspondence. |
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| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. |
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| | • | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Air -- Pollution -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. |
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| | • | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic policy. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social policy. |
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| | • | Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. |
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| | • | Cleveland Transit System. |
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| | • | Cleveland: NOW! |
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| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Gilpin Players. |
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| | • | Glenville Shootout, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. |
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| | • | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hough Area Development Corporation. |
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| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
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| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Karamu House. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Rural-urban migration -- United States. |
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| | • | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl. |
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| | • | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Youth -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Hough Area Development Corporation Records
| | | | Creator: | Hough Area Development Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1967-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The Hough Area Development Corporation (f. 1967) was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by DeForest Brown in conjunction with African American professionals and neighborhood leaders in the wake of the Hough riots by DeForest Brown to aid in bringing economic prosperity to Cleveland's Hough neighborhood. Dedicated to African American self-determination, the group initially met in secret in order to prevent competition for dollars and outside attempts to control it. The group promoted African American business entrepreneurship and better housing. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, clippings, legal papers, financial records, reports, and the working papers of the corporation's offices. | | | | Call #: | MS 4222 | | | | Extent: | 27.30 linear feet (28 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Hough Area Development Corporation. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Karamu House Records
| | | | Creator: | Karamu House | | | | Dates: | 1914-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing African American population, in order to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. The Playhouse Settlement was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927. By 1941, the entire settlement had taken the name Karamu House. The Dumas Dramatic Club was created to support and encourage interest and activities in the performing arts. In 1922, the theater troupe's name was changed to The Gilpin Players in honor of noted African American actor Charles Gilpin. During the 1920s and 1930s, works by many accomplished playwrights were produced at Karamu, including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill, and Langston Hughes, whose career was launched at Karamu. In 1939, the house was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding was not completed until 1949. The Jelliffes' mission of an interracial institution continued until the late 1960s, when, under the leadership of new director Kenneth Snipes, Karamu's mission became one of promoting African-American theater and plays specifically about the African-American experience. During this time a professional troupe of actors was formed. In 1982, Karamu formally returned to its original mission as an interracial organization. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, building construction applications, historical accounts, minutes, records of the Board of Trustees, reports, proposals, publications, financial records, contribution records, correspondence, play scripts and related information, announcements of events, programs, memoranda, date books, guest books, newspaper clippings, subject files, ledgers, scrapbooks, and student enrollment cards. Notable correspondents include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Hubert Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Phillip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, Carter G. Woodson, Eliot Ness, Walter White, Marian Anderson, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Harry E. Davis, Harry C. Smith, and Jane Edna Hunter. The majority of the papers date from the period after World War II, particularly the 1950s and 1960s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4606 | | | | Extent: | 79.21 linear feet (92 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. | Karamu House. | Gilpin Players. | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. | 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. | Rural-urban migration -- United States. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | East End Neighborhood House Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | East End Neighborhood House | | | | Dates: | 1910-1976 | | | | Abstract: | East End Neighborhood House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907. It originally offered domestic skills classes and recreational activities to new immigrants principally from Hungary. The Center is a social settlement/community center serving Cleveland's Buckeye-Woodland-Woodhill community. Hungarian during the first half of the century, this area became largely Black during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout this period, the center adjusted its activities to meet the needs of the area and also to take advantage of newly available federal funds. The programs reflected increased attention to the needs of senior citizens and also included expanded daycare programs and mental-health programs. The collection consists of minutes of the Board of Trustees, membership lists, corporate documents, personnel and director search records, general correspondence, financial records, and general program descriptions and budget statements. The collection pertains to the center's operation and includes material relating to its financial crisis, 1974-76, its search for a black director, and the changing racial composition of the area served by the center. | | | | Call #: | MS 4252 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) | East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 5 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 6 | Title: | Hiram House Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Hiram House Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1893-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement. | | | | Call #: | MS 3319 | | | | Extent: | 38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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