Ex-Slave Portraits [graphic]
Photographs of ex-slaves, taken as a part of a WPA project in Ohio. A digital image representing one item in this collection has been included in this bibliographical record.
Citation Location: Ohio History Connection
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George Myers Papers
The George A. Myers papers were donated to the Ohio Historical Society by his daughter, Dorothy Myers Grantham, in 1955. The papers, contained in 18 document boxes, were originally arranged and described by Joyce Rieder in May-June 1974 and were filmed at the that time by the Ohio Historical Society, the camera operator was Barbara Hammond; the microfilm production supervisor…
John P. Green [graphic]
3 photographic prints : black and white ; 21 x 27 centimeters or smaller
Louis Stokes [graphic]
Portrait photograph of Louis Stokes from Cleveland who represented Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives for 15 terms from 1969 to 1998. He was the brother of Carl Stokes, a former Cleveland Mayor.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Ohio Branch Records
This item is a finding aid or inventory to an Ohio History Connection or series. Finding aids are descriptive access tools that provide more complete information about a collection than you will find in the online catalog record. For more information on the collection and to view its contents, contact the Ohio History Connection.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Ohio Branch Records
Correspondence (1965-1970), annual reports, memoranda, bulletins, and newspaper clippings, relating to student unrest, civil right, Job Corps, housing, police brutality, unemployment, and Ohio State University.
Negro Affairs, 1920-1923
This sub-series contains materials relating to the black American population of the United States. Much of its contents are correspondence from leading black citizens advocating for equal rights, equal representation in government, protection from lynching and other violence directed at them (including a limited number of materials relating to the Tulsa race riot and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill), and many…
Negro Rights
Correspondence contains discussions of black Americans and advancing their civil rights.
Ohio Childrens’ Home
The collection consists of photographs depicting children’s homes in Ohio, ca. 1900-1910. Included are exterior and interior views of the homes that show living and health care facilities, activities and groups of children and staff.
Ohio Civil Rights Protest Photographs (Graphic)
The collection is comprised of photographs taken by news services documenting riots, civil rights protests and rioting between 1964 and 1966. The bulk of the photographs document the riot in the predominantly African-American Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, July 19-25, 1966. There are also photographs of conflict between white and African-American students at Cleveland s Collinwood High School in March 1965,…