Barristers’ Wives Records, 1956 – 2008
Barristers’ Wives was a group committed to community and social concerns that was founded in 1956 by a group of seventeen African-American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The group initially met in October 1956 to support the campaign of Cleveland’s first African-American mayoral candidate, Alexander Martin, and continued to meet throughout the 1950s and 1960s to support other African-American politicians. The…