| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 161 | Title: | Butler A. Jones Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jones, Butler A. | | | | Dates: | 1944-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Butler A. Jones was an African American educator and professor of sociology. Jones taught at several colleges, including Cleveland State University, 1969-1984. He was particularly interested in the effectiveness of law as a means of social change, with a special focus on school desegregation litigation. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscript writings, legal documents, unpublished reports, clippings, and material on various agencies. The collection pertains to the research of Butler A. Jones with respect to desegregation cases and to activist groups of the 1960s, especially the Southern Regional Council and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Included are desegregation case proceedings and issues of Student Voice, a publication of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. | | | | Call #: | MS 4493 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jones, Butler A., 1916- | African American sociologists. | African American college teachers. | School integration -- United States -- Case studies. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | African American universities and colleges. | African Americans -- Education. | African Americans -- Civil rights. | Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 162 | Title: | Henry Thomas Tanaka Papers
| | | | Creator: | Tanaka, Henry Thomas | | | | Dates: | 1942-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Henry Thomas Tanaka (b. 1922) was the national president of the Japanese American Citizens' League. A second generation Japanese American, Tanaka was born in Oregon, placed in an internment camp during World War II, and subsequently resettled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a leader in Japanese American affairs. The collection consists of minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, memoranda, financial records, membership lists, histories, news releases, publications and other records of the Japanese American Citizens' League, and records collected by Henry Tanaka and Rev. Katsuichi Satow on issues of Japanese interest. | | | | Call #: | MS 3680 | | | | Extent: | 11.90 linear feet (14 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Tanaka, Henry Thomas, 1922- | Japanese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Japanese Americans -- Social conditions. | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | Concentration camps -- United States. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- United States. | Race discrimination -- United States. | Civil rights -- United States. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 163 | Title: | John Mercer Langston and the fight for Black freedom, 1829-65
| | | | Creator: | Cheek, William F., 1933- | | | | | Cheek, Aimee Lee, 1936- | | | | Publication: | University of Illinois Press, Urbana,c1989. | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. | | | | Call #: | E185.97 L285C51 | | | | Extent: | 478 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Langston, John Mercer, -- 1829-1897 | Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858 | African Americans -- Biography | African Americans -- History -- To 1863 | Antislavery movements -- United States | Antislavery movements -- Ohio | African Americans -- Ohio -- Biography | African Americans -- Ohio -- History | United States -- Race relations | Ohio -- Race relations
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 169 | Title: | The truth that never hurts: writings on race, gender, and freedom
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Barbara, 1946- | | | | Publication: | Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J,c1998. | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217). | | | | Call #: | E185.86 S643 | | | | Extent: | xvi, 217 p. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Smith, Barbara, -- 1946- | African American women -- Civil rights | Lesbian feminism -- United States | American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | African American women authors | African American lesbians | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relations
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 171 | Title: | The complete Civil War journal and selected letters of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
| | | | Creator: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | | | | | Looby, Christopher. | | | | Publication: | University of Chicago Press, Chicago,2000. | | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. | | | | Call #: | E492.94 33d H63 | | | | Extent: | xix, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, -- 1823-1911 -- Diaries | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, -- 1823-1911 -- Correspondence | United States. -- Army. -- Colored Infantry Regiment, 33rd (1862-1866) | Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries | Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories | United States -- Race relations
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 172 | Title: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604 Records
| | | | Creator: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604 | | | | Dates: | 1956-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, Local 604, is the Cleveland, Ohio, local of a federal employee's trade union. Its membership was predominantly African American. The collection consists of a dues book (1956-1957), several issues of Post Mark Cleveland (1958-1974), fact sheets, and banquet programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4153 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.). Local 604 (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Employment. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Discrimination in employment -- United States. | Race discrimination -- United States. | Government employee unions -- United States. | Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States. | Minority labor union members -- United States. | Civil service -- United States -- Minority membership. | Postal service -- United States -- Employees. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 173 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1885-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The Henry Lee Moon family was a prominent twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, African American family involved in civil rights and community organizations. In 1912, Roddy K. Moon helped form the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and served as its founding president 1912-1916. He was also on the board of the Negro Welfare Association, supported the Phillis Wheatley Association, and in 1933 organized the Palmetto Club. His wife, Leah Anna Himes Moon, was a fifty-year member of the Cleveland Branch NAACP, and with her husband was a founding member of the Forest City Garden Club. Roddy and Leah Moon had three surviving children; Joseph Herbert, Ella Elizabeth, and Henry Lee. Ella Moon was a teacher, an active member of the Forest City Garden Club, and was married to Clyde Smith. Henry Lee Moon was a newspaper editor, press relations secretary for Tuskegee Institute (1926-1931), and worked for the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Moon, along with his future wife and other African Americans, traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for consultations concerning a government sponsored film project on the history of black America. From 1938-1944 he was race relations adviser for the Federal Public Housing Authority. He also worked as assistant director to the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was active with the NAACP, becoming its director of public relations in 1948-1960. He was the author of two books; Balance of Power: the Negro Vote (1948) and The Emerging Thought of W.E. B. Dubois (1972). His wife, Mollie Virgil Lewis Moon, was a pharmacist, and later worked as a social worker with the Department of Social Services in New York City. She was also a public relations executive, founder and chairman of the National Urban League Guild (1942-1962), and trustee and secretary of the National Urban League (1955-1962). After World War II, she became involved with the "brown-babies" of Germany campaign, which attempted to provide relief for orphaned or abandoned children of mixed African and European or American ancestry. The collection consists of booklets, cards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, letters, memorandum, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, pamphlets, proposals, speeches, telegrams, published and unpublished writings, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4823 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Joseph Herbert. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Labor movement -- United States. | African American women -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women public relations personnel. | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. | African American social workers. | United States -- Race relations.
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