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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 61 | 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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Book | Requires cookie* | 64 | Title: | The Negro American
| | | Uniform Title: | Daedalus (Boston, Mass.)
| | | Creator: | Parsons, Talcott, 1902- | | | | Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914- | | | Publication: | Beacon Press, Boston,1967, c1966. | | | Notes: | Most of the essays appeared originally, "some of them in slightly different form, in the Fall 1965 and Winter 1966 issues of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences"--T.p. verso. Reprint. Originally published: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | | | Call #: | E185.6 D122N 1967 | | | Extent: | xxix, 781 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | | | Subjects: | African Americans | African Americans -- Civil rights
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Book | Requires cookie* | 66 | Title: | Freedom's soldiers: the Black military experience in the Civil War
| | | Creator: | Berlin, Ira, 1941- | | | | Reidy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1948- | | | | Rowland, Leslie S. | | | Publication: | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K, New York,1998. | | | Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184) and index. | | | Call #: | E540 N3F85 | | | Extent: | xvi, 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. | | | Subjects: | United States. -- Army -- African American troops -- History -- 19th century | African American soldiers -- History -- 19th century | African American soldiers -- Correspondence | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
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Book | Requires cookie* | 67 | Title: | From darkness to light: the story of Negro progress
| | | Creator: | Helm, Mary, 1845-1913 | | | | Council of Women for Home Missions | | | Publication: | F.H. Revell, New York,c1909. | | | Notes: | At head of title: Issued under direction of the Council of Women for Home Missions. Includes bibliographical references. | | | Call #: | E185 H477 | | | Extent: | 218 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 19 cm. | | | Subjects: | African Americans | African Americans -- Religion
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Book | Requires cookie* | 69 | Title: | The colored American working man of the new time: An address delivered before the State Agricultural and Mechanical College for the Colored Race, at Greensboro, N.C., May 26, 1898
| | | Creator: | Mayo, A. D. (Amory Dwight), 1823-1907 | | | Publication: | Press of Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va,1898. | | | Call #: | LC2801 M473C | | | Extent: | 34 p. 22 cm. | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Education | African Americans
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Periodicals and Newspapers | Requires cookie* | 71 | Title: | Proceedings of the trustees of the John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen
| | | Creator: | John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen | | | Publication: | The Fund], New York,-1909. | | | Notes: | Description based on: 1907-1908. | | | Call #: | E185.5 J66 | | | Extent: | v. ; 25 cm. | | | Subjects: | African Americans | African Americans -- Education
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Book | Requires cookie* | 75 | Title: | Plays and pageants from the life of the Negro
| | | Creator: | Richardson, Willis, 1889- | | | | Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, b. 1902 | | | | Cuney-Hare, Maud, 1874-1936 | | | | Matheus, John Frederick, 1887-1983 | | | | Miller, May. | | | | Burke, Inez M. | | | | Guinn, Dorothy C. | | | | Gunner, Frances. | | | Publication: | The Associated Publishers, Washington, D.C,c1930. | | | Call #: | PS627 N4R5 | | | Extent: | x, 373 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. | | | Subjects: | American drama -- African American authors | African Americans in literature
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