Affirmative Action Progress Reports
Volumes contain statistical listing numbers of men, women and minorities employed in various jobs. Includes data on salaries, hiring practices, demotions, promotions, resignations, retirements, and discharges.
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African-American Experience in Ohio
The African-American Experience in Ohio collection documents specific moments in the history of African Americans in Ohio in their own words, particularly focusing on their experiences from 1850-1920. It includes manuscripts, collections, photographs, and pamphlets from the Ohio History Connection Archives & Libraries and its National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center division in Wilberforce. This collection only scratches the surface…
African Methodist Episcopal Church Convention (Graphic)
Panoramic photograph of African Methodist Episcopal Church Convention
Autobiography of George Perry Metcalf
Autobiography of George Perry Metcalf of Lorain County, Ohio recounts his childhood on a Medina County, Ohio farm, his service with the New York Infantry Regiment 136, Company D in the Civil War, his law education and experience as a lawyer in Mississippi during the Reconstruction. It includes biographical excerpts from other sources, a Metcalf family genealogy, and a photograph…
Black American Literature Collection
Valerie Smith surveys the development of black American literature from the 1890s to the 1930s, examining the achievements of the authors who consolidated the Afro-American literary tradition at the turn of the century, notably Charles Chestnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar and the major poets and novelists of the Harlem Renaissance, such as James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes. Additionally, she…
Booker T. Washington Letter
This collection includes a letter from Booker T. Washington to W.F. Carr of Cleveland, Ohio, regretting that he cannot provide Carr with the help he needs. Washington states that students educated at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute are meant to be of service to their own people in the South.
Charles W. Chesnutt
Collection contains photographic reproductions of portraits depicting Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the African-American novelist from Cleveland, Ohio.
Charles W. Chesnutt Collection
Collection contains photographic reproductions of portraits depicting Charles Waddell Chesnutt, the African-American novelist from Cleveland, Ohio.
David Gerber Papers
Hardbound copy in two parts of David Gerber’s January 1971 dissertation prepared for Princeton University, titled “Ohio and the Color Line: Racial Discrimination and Negro Responses in a Northern State, 1860-1915.” The library also holds Gerber’s book published under the same title.
Evva Kenney Heath Papers
Correspondence, ephemera and photographs of Evva Kenney Heath and the Kenney (Kinney) family of Cardington, Ohio includes letter written by Evva Kenny Heath and her siblings, Bessie Kenney Brimbee and John Kenney, to their mother, Louisa Kenney, and to each other. Evva describes her work as a teacher in Bramwell, West Virgina, her attendance at Howard University Law School and…