Available Works or Citations from Collection
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…
Republic of Liberia: facts for thinking men, showing the present condition of slave labor and free labor, in tropical and semi-tropical countries; and the indispensable necessity of African colonization; being letters originally addressed to the citizens of Cleveland, Ohio, through the Herald and the Plain dealer, daily papers of this city, — Feb. 1852.
Miscellaneous materials relating to African Methodist Episcopal Church — Conferences — North Ohio, including: bound program for 91st Session North Ohio Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, October 19-24, 1971.
Miscellaneous materials relating to Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society. Cleveland Chapter, including Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society Cleveland Chapter Newsletter, Volume 1 Number 2, Summer 1990 (3 copies)
Images and audio excerpts recalling 1968, a pivotal year for Akron, Ohio, and communities throughout the nation. The excerpts were taken from oral history interviews collected as part of a collaborative project of the Akron-Summit County Public Library and Dr. Gregory Wilson and students enrolled in his Fall 2008 course on public history at the University of Akron. This collection…
Dr. Henry Justus Herrick was born on January 20, 1833 in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. He was the son of Justus Tyler Herrick (1801-1882) and Caroline J. Herrick (1808-1847). The family moved to Twinsburg when he was a child where he worked on the family farm and attended school. He graduated from Williams College in 1858 and Rush Medical College…
Billy Pinkney Collection on the Drifters is dated 1950s-1988 and some materials are undated. The collection contains a 78 rpm Atlantic record sleeve and three newspaper clippings. The collection gives insight into the original Drifters’ popularity. The Billy Pinkney Collection on the Drifters is arranged alphabetically. Bill Pinkney, a tenor and bass singer, was one of the last surviving original…
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…
The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland’s African-American folk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins,…
A pathfinder to our extensive collections focusing on Black Clevelanders and Black Cleveland history. Includes historical photographs contextualized by articles, e-books, audio interviews, speeches, and oral histories, as well as providing links to essential off-site reading. A rich sampling of materials that collectively tell a broader story about African-American life in Cleveland, Ohio.