Subject | • | African Americans |
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| | • | African Americans -- Biography |
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| | • | United States -- Race relations |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Education |
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| | • | African Americans -- Civil rights |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American |
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| | • | African Americans -- History |
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| | • | Freedmen |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Social conditions |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Colonization |
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| | • | African American soldiers |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography |
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| | • | Slavery -- United States |
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| | • | Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 19th century |
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| | • | Liberia |
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| | • | African Americans -- Genealogy |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio |
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| | • | African Americans -- Religion |
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| | • | African Americans -- Songs and music |
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| | • | African Americans -- Fiction |
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| | • | Baseball players -- United States -- Biography |
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| | • | African Americans -- Employment |
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| | • | American Colonization Society |
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| | • | African American baseball players -- Biography |
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| | • | Antislavery movements -- United States |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography |
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| | • | African American newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans -- History -- To 1863 |
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| | • | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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| | • | African American women -- Biography |
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| | • | African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Periodicals |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Newspapers |
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| | • | Douglass, Frederick, -- 1818-1895 |
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| | • | African Americans in literature |
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| | • | African Americans -- Economic conditions |
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| | • | African Americans -- Genealogy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Newspapers |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans |
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| | • | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, African American |
(16)
| | • | Slaves -- United States -- Biography |
(15)
| | • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives |
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| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 25 | Title: | Progress of a race; or, The remarkable advancement of the Afro-American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty, to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust
| | | | Creator: | Kletzing, H. F. (Henry F.), 1850- | | | | | Crogman, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1931 | | | | | Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 | | | | Publication: | J. L. Nichols & co, Atlanta, Ga, Naperville, Ill. [etc],1898. | | | | Call #: | E185 K64 | | | | Extent: | xxiv, 23-663, [1] p. front. (port.) illus. 20 cm. | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- History | African Americans -- Economic conditions | African Americans -- Social conditions
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 27 | Title: | John T. Weeden, Sr. Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Weeden, John T. Family | | | | Dates: | 1920-1989 | | | | Abstract: | John T. Weeden, Sr. (1901-1988) was a prominent African-American Baptist clergyman of Cleveland, Ohio. After pastoring 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 photographs of the African-American church community of Cleveland, Ohio, and images of political activities in Cleveland, including the 1964 voter registration campaign. In addition to photographs of Reverend Weeden and the Weeden family, the collection includes images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, and Jesse Jackson in 1968; images of the King funeral procession in Atlanta, Georgia in 1968; portraits of Carl B. Stokes, Louis Stokes, Benjamin Hooks, and Dick Gregory; and views of St. Timothy Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and other African-American churches and church activities. The collection includes 207 black and white photographs, 248 color photographs, and 13 negatives in various formats. | | | | Call #: | PG 498 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Weeden, John T., Sr., 1901-1988 -- Portraits. | Weeden family -- Portraits. | African American Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 40 | Title: | Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | George, Dr. Zelma Watson | | | | Dates: | 1881-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 5415 | | | | Extent: | 55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | George, Zelma Watson | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- United States. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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