Local African American History Directory

Highlights of the collection

Native Son

Prints became a popular art form in the 1930s during the Great Depression in the United States. Artists like Smith exploited the expressionist power of such techniques as woodcutting and linoleum cutting, carving deep furrows…
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Interview with Majorie Moon

Stage director and stage producer Marjorie Moon (1946 -) served as the president and executive director of the Billie Holiday Theatre, in addition to directing and producing several plays. Moon was interviewed by The HistoryMakers®…
Negro Rights

Correspondence contains discussions of black Americans and advancing their civil rights.
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History Interview with Leatrice Branch Madison

Civic leader Leatrice Branch Madison (1922 – 2012) is a co-founder of and one of the original board members for HARAMBEE: Services to Black Families, an agency designed to provide parenting skills to teenage parents…
Greater Cleveland Project Records

The Greater Cleveland Project was a non-profit organization whose purpose was to ease the implementation of court-ordered desegregation in the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Schools. The desegregation of the schools was ordered by federal judge Frank…
Garrett A. Morgan Photographs

Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was an entrepreneur and inventor whose inventions included the electric traffic signal and the gas mask. Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 and opened his own sewing machine sales and…
“No Water for Niggers” : The Hough Riots and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement

The author, Olivia Lapeyrolerie, graduated from the University of St. Andrews, located in Scotland, where she received a Master of Arts in Modern History. This publications is the thesis she submitted in partial fulfillment for…
Progressive Baptist District Association Records

The Progressive Baptist District Association is a Cleveland, Ohio, Baptist Association which is a member of the National Baptist Convention, the nation’s largest African-American religious group (est. 1880) The collection consists of programs and a…