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MS 554-3628

Western Anti-Slavery Society (f. 1842)

Records, 1857-1864 1 vol. MS 554

Alliance, Ohio records includes a minute book of the executive committee, with by-laws and annual reports, which were printed in the Anti-Slavery Bugle, newspaper, Salem, Ohio.

 

George Myers (1859-1930)

Papers, 1912-1927 1 container MS. 1199

George Myers was the proprietor of the Hollenden Hotel Barbershop in downtown Cleveland from 1889 to 1930. He was extremely influential in Cleveland and national Republican Party politics in the late 19th and early 20th century. He served as a delegate to the 1890, 1892, and 1896 National GOP conventions and was a close political associate of both President William McKinley and industrialist / Senator Marcus A. Hanna. This collection includes copies of letters between George Myers and historian James Rhodes between 1912 and the mid-1920s.

 

Marius Robinson (1806-1878)

Papers, 1830-1865, 1877. 1 container MS. 1660

Rev. Marius R. Robinson was an itinerant lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society in Ohio (1836-1839) and later editor of the Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio). Born in Dalton, Massachusetts, July 29, 1806, Robinson was an apprenticed printer, bookbinder, and schoolteacher of the Cherokee Nation. He began his Anti-Slavery crusade in Cincinnati in 1836, the same year he met and married Emily Rakestraw. In the fall of that same year, he was commissioned by the American Anti-Slavery Society as a lecturing agent for the Ohio field. Of particular interest are field letters to his wife, Emily, detailing his experiences as an agent for the Society.

 

Andrew Jackson II (1809-

Account Book, 1845-1877 MS. 1880

Account book entries regarding Andrew Jackson II, detailing operations on the Hermitage plantation. In Included in the entries are the names of enslaved, male and female, children and accounts of the deaths on hermitage during the 1844 cholera epidemic.

 

Perley Peabody Pitkin (d. 1891)

Papers, 1861-1868, (1862-1864) 9 containers MS. 2151

Relating primarily to Lieutenant Colonel Perley Peabody Pitkin's activities as assistant quartermaster for the Army of the Potomac from 1862 through 1864. His activities involved shipments, receipts, and transfers of supplies and government property for units of the army under Generals, McClellan and Burnside in 1862, Hooker and Meade in 1863, and Meade and Grant in 1864. These shipments included food, forage, clothing and other equipment for officers and enlisted men. Of particular interest are receipts for the payment of laborers and other employees, including the enslaved (contraband) within Union lines.

 

Regimental Papers of the Civil War

Papers, 1861-1865 36 cont., 17 vol. MS. 2152

Records of numerous regiments in both the Union and Confederate armies from 30 states. Of particular interest here, is the papers of H.G. Crickmore and J.W. Paine of the Corps De Afrique or 4th U.S. Colored Calvary, and those of other African American regiments.

 

Orlando Charles Risdon (b.ca. 1840).

Papers, 1861-1872. 3 containers MS. 3229

General Orlando Charles Risdon helped to organize the 53rd United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War. Of interest are date books, orders, and muster papers detailing the U.S. 53rd Colored Infantry from 1864 to 1866.

 

Samuel V. Perry (1895-1968).

Papers, 1914-1967. 5 cont. MS. 3327

Samuel V. Perry organized the Afro-Mutual Benefit Association that provided burial and sick benefits for Shiloh Baptist Church members in 1924. He was an advertising manager for the Call and Post for a number of years and edited his own paper, The Searchlight. He became the first African American parole officer in the state of Ohio in 1930 and in 1932, was appointed City Streets Department Clerk where he remained until 1948. In 1937 he led the charge upon the Cleveland City Council to dedicate the Colonel Charles Young Square at the corner of East 46th and Prospect Avenue. This collection consists of research materials on the African American experience, writings and speeches about racism and African American history, correspondence and legal files.

 

Dr. Charles Herbert Garvin (1890-1968).

Papers, 1928-1965. 2.5 containers MS. 3328

Charles Garvin was born in Jacksonville, Florida and educated at Atlanta and Howard Universities where he received his medical degree. Garvin came to Cleveland in 1916. He spent two years as a medical officer during World War I, where he was the first African American to attend the Army Medical School in D.C., and the first to be commissioned as a physician where he rose to the rank of captain. He was an associate professor of clinical urology at the Western Reserve University and served on the staff of Lakeside Hospital from 1920 until his retirement. He was the author of numerous articles and books on medicine including an unpublished manuscript, Africa's Contribution to Medicine. This collection contains letters, speeches, articles, clippings, and research notes.

 

Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932).

Papers, 1889-1932. 1 microfilm roll 2 containers MS. 3370

Charles W. Chesnutt was a distinguished novelist and short story writer. Born in Cleveland in 1858, he later moved, with his family, to Fayetteville, North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. He returned to Cleveland in the 1880s, studied law, passed the Bar in 1887 and worked as a stenographer with an office in the Union Trust Building. During the 1880s and 1890s the Atlantic Monthly published at least seven of his short stories. In 1899, a collection of his short stories were published under the title The Conjure Woman. Other novels and books followed: The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of The Color Line, (1899), a biography of Frederick Douglass (1899), The House Behind the Cedars, (1900), The Marrow of Tradition, (1901), and The Colonel's Dream, (1905). The papers include correspondence, writings, invitations, and programs, advertisements for his books and lectures, and newspaper clippings. Well known correspondents include W.E.B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, John P. Green, Walter White, and Arthur and Joel Spingarn.

 

John Patterson Green (1845-1940).

Papers, 1869-1910. 6 microfilm rolls 10.5 containers MS. 3379

John P. Green was the first African American to be elected to public

office in Cleveland and the state of Ohio. Born in North Carolina, Green came to Cleveland as a boy in 1857, was graduated from Central High School and attended Union Law School. In 1890 Green introduced a Bill in the State House that declared Labor Day a legal holiday in Ohio. This collection contains correspondence, legal papers, speeches, financial accounts, clippings, and other material pertinent to the life of John P. Green. Well known correspondents include Jere A. Brown, Sterling Brown, Sr., Blanche K, Bruce, Charles Chesnutt, T. Thomas Fortune, Mark A. Hanna, George A. Myers, William Monroe Trotter, and George Washington Williams.

 

R.F. Humiston (d. 1889).

Journal, 1866-1868. 1 volume MS. 3426

Ransom F. Humiston was the Principal of the Cleveland Institute. This

journal contains his views of the Freedmen Schools in the south following the Civil War.

 

George Washington Bowen (1838-1908)

Notebook, 1851-1852. 1 volume MS. 3467

George Washington Bowen was a student at the Cleveland Institute of Homeopathy in the early 1850s. He later served in the 5th U.S. Colored Calvary Regiment during the Civil War as a surgeon and went on to practice medicine in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The notebook includes notes taken during his studies at the Cleveland Institute of Homeopathy in the winter of 1851-52.

 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (f.1912)

Records, 1924-1968. 74 containers MS. 3520

The Cleveland branch of the NAACP was organized in 1912 and chartered in

1914. The branch's first president was Roddy K. Moon. In 1944, L. Pearl Mitchell, a longtime member became the branches first executive secretary. Under her leadership the NAACP advocated against discrimination in hospital employment practices and racism in the Cleveland Public Schools. This collection contains correspondence, administrative reports, minutes, files, financial records, newspaper clippings, reports, brochures, speeches, insurance policies, news releases, pamphlets, and photographs.

 

Charles W. White (1897-1970).

Papers, 1920-1970. 53 containers MS. 3521

Judge Charles William White was born in 1897, in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Fisk University in 1921, Harvard Law school in 1924 and admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1925. In 1926 he was elected president of the Cleveland NAACP. He engaged in private law practice in Cleveland until 1933, at which time Mayor Harry L. Davis appointed him Assistant City law director. He held this post until 1955 when Governor Frank J. Lausche appointed him to the Common Pleas Court bench. He was the first African American to serve on a Common Pleas bench in the state of Ohio, and the third to serve as a judge. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, awards, certificates, legal files, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to the public and personal life of Charles W. White.

 

Myrtle J. Bell (1895-1979).

Papers, 1907-1969. 1 container MS. 3522

Myrtle Johnson Bell was the first African American High School Assistant

Principal in the Cleveland City Schools. Born in Warrensville, Mrs. Bell attended Central High, and Women's College of Western Reserve University earning a master’s degree in 1938. She taught at Tuskegee University before teaching in the Cleveland Public Schools. In 1931, while teaching at Kennard Junior High, Mrs. Bell organized the Question Mark Club, which introduced African American history to students. This collection contains correspondence, certificates, programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and course of study for human relations, and other papers related to the public and personal life of Myrtle J. Bell.

 

Katherine P. Williamson (1910-1964).

Papers, 1929-1964. 4 cont., 2 vol. MS. 3523

Lucy Katherine Porter Williamson was born in 1910, in Wilmington,

Delaware. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1929 and Western Reserve University in 1932. Mrs. Williamson was a noted social worker for the Child Welfare Department of Cuyahoga County. She drafted the Central Avenue Study in 1942, which detailed the deplorable conditions that existed in Cleveland's Central Avenue neighborhood and linked those conditions to problems such as juvenile delinquency and infant mortality. This collection contains correspondence, awards, certificates, theses, studies, photographs, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings and other papers.

 

William Mack (b. 1928).

Papers, 1965-1970. 2.5 containers MS. 3524

William Mack was a Republican candidate for Congress in 1970. Mack was a World War II veteran, served as Chairman of the Combined Health and Welfare Committee of the Glenville Community Forest Hill Parkway, Vice Chairman of the 6th District Police and Citizen's Committee, and on the Advisory Committee to the Apprenticeship Information Center of the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services. This collection contains correspondence, campaign files, newspaper clippings, invitations, Republican Party information and other materials related to the political aspirations of William Mack.

 

Lethia C. Fleming (1876-1963).

Papers, 1900-1963. 1.5 containers MS. 3525

Lethia Cousins Fleming was born in Tazewell, Virginia. She was a graduate of Morristown College in Morristown, Virginia. She taught in the West Virginia schools for over twenty years. She came to Cleveland in 1912 when she married Cleveland City Councilman, Thomas W. Fleming. In 1914 she was elected president of the Home for Aged Colored People (now the Eliza Bryant Center). Fleming was active with many women and civic organizations, including the National Council of Negro Women, Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs, President of the National Association of Republican Women, and Chairman of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. This collection contains certificates, letters, genealogy papers, reports, programs, accounts, newspaper clippings, and books relating to Lethia C. Fleming.

 

Phillis Wheatley Association (f. 1911).

Records, 1914-1959. 42 containers MS. 3527

The Phillis Wheatley Association is a settlement house founded by Jane

Edna Hunter to provide housing for African-American women. Originally founded as the Working Girls' Home Association, it concentrated on housing and employment. It expanded in 1917, and by 1919 had the aid of the Cleveland Welfare Federation in the development of an educational and social center and established the Stephen School of Music. This collection contains financial records, minutes, statements, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, printed brochures, photographs, speeches and correspondence.

 

Walter L. Brown (1871-1950).

Scrapbook, 1905-1940. 1 volume MS. 3528

Walter L. Brown was one of the first African Americans in Cleveland to become active in the Democratic Party. He was a staunch supporter of Mayor Tom Johnson and was president of the First Johnson Club, an African American Democratic organization. Walter L. Brown was raised in Tennessee and attended Knoxville College. He served as deputy sheriff and justice of the peace in Hamilton County before moving to Cleveland in 1893. He was a brick and cement inspector with the city under the administration of Mayor Tom L. Johnson. Brown held positions as complaint clerk in the city street department under Mayor Baker in 1912; and information clerk in the County Prosecutors office with Ray T. Miller in 1930. He was an ordained minister and established the first Spiritualist congregation in Cleveland. This collection contains a scrapbook with correspondence, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia relating to Walter L. Brown's political activities and his interest in spiritualism.

 

Boyd's Funeral Home, Inc. (f.1906).

Records, 1906-1944. 0.5 container MS. 3531

Elmer F. Boyd founded Boyd’s Funeral Home. Its original site was on Central Avenue. In 1917 it moved to 43rd and Central and in 1938 moved to its present site on the corner of East 89th and Cedar Avenue. Boyd's is one of the oldest and most successful funeral businesses in Cleveland. In 1944, upon the passing of its founder the business came under the direction of Elmer F. Boyd's son, William F. Boyd. The third generation of the Boyd family business was represented when William Franklin Boyd, Jr. joined his father in 1968. This collection contains funeral records, financial records and newspaper clippings.

 

Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged (f. 1896).

Records, 1896-1962. 9.5 containers MS. 3532

Founded by Eliza Simmons Bryant in 1896. This senior living center was the

first of its kind in the Cleveland area for the African American community. Originally named the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People, its incorporation was necessitated by the fact that the existing homes in Cleveland would not admit African Americans. Its first president was Mrs. Sylvia Stevens in 1897. The Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged became the first institution to be a member of the Welfare Federation. This collection contains financial reports, constitution and by-laws, minutes, program reports, registers of patients, registers of guest, canceled checks and receipts, accountant reports, histories, and miscellaneous printed materials.

 

L. Pearl Mitchell (1890-1974).

Papers, 1875, 1920-1970. 2.5 containers MS. 3533

Born Lottie Pearl Mitchell in Wilberforce, Ohio, she was the first executive secretary of the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP. Her father, Dr. Samuel T. Mitchell was the president of Wilberforce University, and her mother was a teacher and dean of students. L. Pearl was a graduate of Wilberforce and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She later moved to Cleveland where she became a member of the NAACP and the Playhouse Settlement (Karamu House) where she became a member of the Gilpin Players, forerunner of the Karamu Theater Group. In 1944 L. Pearl became the first executive secretary for the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP. Governor Frank Lausche appointed her as a trustee of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home Board. She was also very active in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority holding all the national offices, and became the third Supreme Basileus. This collection contains correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, reports, miscellaneous printed materials and sermons.

 

Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963).

Papers, 1916-1963. 3 containers MS. 3534

Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Claysville, Kentucky, on March 4. He moved to Cleveland in 1895 and in 1907 opened a sewing machine repair shop. He soon opened a clothing manufacturing shop in his home on Harlem Avenue and invented a hair straightener and used it to launch the Garrett Morgan Hair Refining Company. In 1912 he filed for a patent for the safety hood and in 1922 he patented the safety light, or traffic signal. In the early 1920s he started the Cleveland Call newspaper, which was the forerunner of the Call and Post. The Morgan collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, diagrams of inventions, blueprints, financial records, contracts and land titles, petitions to the City of Cleveland, brochures and pamphlets, and miscellaneous printed items.

 

Jane Edna Hunter (1882-1971).

Papers, 1930-1969. 1 cont. and 1 OV MS. 3544

Jane Edna Hunter was the founder and director for thirty-seven years of the Phillis Wheatley Association. Born in 1882, in Pendleton, South Carolina, she was a graduate of Ferguson-Williams College. She later attended Dixie Hospital and Training School located at Hampton Institute. A registered nurse, Jane Hunter came to Cleveland in 1905. She conceived of the idea for a settlement house for African American working girls and newly arriving migrants, and organized the Working Girls Home Association in 1911. She received a Law Degree from Baldwin-Wallace Law School in 1925, and passed the Bar that same year. She is the author of A Nickel and a Prayer, her autobiography, and The Life Works of Phillis Wheatley. This collection contains correspondence, speeches, writings, documents, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous printed items.

 

Rev. Wade H. & Ruth B. McKinney (1892-1963), (1900-1966)

Papers, 1898, 1904-1966 16 cont. 1 OV. MS 3549

The Rev. Wade Hampton and Ruth Berry McKinney distinguished themselves in religious and civic affairs. Wade Hampton McKinney was born in 1892, in White County, Georgia. He attended Atlanta Baptist College Academy, Morehouse College and the Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary. In 1923 he became pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Flint, Michigan, during which time he married Annie Ruth Berry. In 1928 the McKinneys came to Cleveland to assume the seventh Pastorialship of Antioch Baptist Church. Under his pastorate the church membership grew from 700 to around 3,000. He organized the Credit Union and moved the church from East 24th Street to East 89th and Cedar Avenue.

Ruth B. McKinney was a graduate of Spelman College. Born in 1900 in Birmingham, Alabama she taught at Roger Williams University in Nashville and at Jackson College in Jackson, Mississippi. She directed Antioch's Young Peoples Choir for thirty-five years. She was a President of the Cleveland Baptist Women's Council. She was National Council of American Baptist Women, Chairman of the Spiritual Life Committee of the Cleveland Council of Church Women and other organizations.

This collection pertains to the affairs of the Reverend Wade H. and Ruth B.

McKinney. It contains speeches, sermons, correspondence, organizational listings and other printed material.

 

Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation (f.1966)

Records, 1962-1972, 2 containers MS. 3550

Representatives of the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, and the Christian Church, officially organized the Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation. The objective of the corporation was to eliminate substandard and inadequate housing and provide safe, healthy, sanitary and adequate housing and living conditions for persons who, either because of lack of financial means or because of prejudice and discrimination, are unable to obtain adequate housing for themselves. The collection consists of brochures, correspondence, diary, minutes, reports, resolutions, proposals, maps, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous items from the records of the Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation.

 

Urban League of Greater Cleveland (f.1917)

Records, 1917-1971 50 cont. 6 OV. MS. 3573

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland began in 1917 as the Negro Welfare Association. It was designed to assist and provide leadership to the city's recent African American migrants in their quest for suitable employment and to aid them in making the transition from rural southern life to urban northern life. The Negro Welfare Association chose as its first executive director, Mr. William Connors. It was the city's first organization to be successful in the areas of housing, health, sanitation, recreation, and education and employment assistance. In 1930 it became an affiliate of the National Urban League. In 1940 the Negro Welfare Association legally changed its name to the Urban League of Cleveland. This collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial records, memberships, brochures, pamphlets, photographs and the personal files of Anita Polka and Ernest Cooper.

 

Perry B. Jackson (1896-1986)

Papers, 1879-1973. 19 cont. MS 3581

Perry Brooks Jackson was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1896. He moved to Cleveland in 1914. Jackson was a graduate of Western Reserve University in 1919 and the WRU Law school in 1922 when he was admitted to the Bar. He was elected to the state legislature in 1929 and in 1933 to city council. From 1934 to 1941 he was the Assistant Police Prosecutor. In 1942, Governor John W. Bricker appointed Jackson to an unexpired term on the Municipal Court Bench, thus making him the first African American judge in the state of Ohio. His tenure as judge lasted until his retirement in 1972. Judge Jackson was also the Grand Treasurer of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World. This collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, programs, speeches, photographs, certificates, awards and other printed material.

 

The Humanist Fellowship of Liberation (f. 1967)

Records 1965-1972 5 containers MS 3592

The Humanist Fellowship of Liberation developed from Cleveland First Unitarian Society. The origins of the Society go back to 1867. The Unitarian Society had been an inter-racial religious organization until the changes in membership and the direction of church activities caused a split between the black and white members. In 1967, at a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Black Unitarian-Universalist Caucus (BUUC) was formed. In 1968 the BUUC changed its name to the Black Humanist Fellowship. In 1969, the Cleveland Unitarian Society decided to distance itself from the plans of the BUUC, and moved its church to Shaker Heights. The remaining African American members decided that the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation would serve as an institution for economic, political and social empowerment within the Hough community. The collection of records consist of articles of incorporation, constitution, financial accounts, correspondence, and other printed material pertaining to the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation as well as the Unitarian-Universalist Association, 1965-1972; Black Affairs Council Incorporated, 1968-1972; and the Black Unitarian-Universalist Caucus, 1968-1972.

 

John Frazier (b. 1941)

Papers, 1965-1972 3 containers MS 3593

The Reverend John Frazier, a Unitarian-Universalist minister, was born in

Mississippi. During the 1960s he was active in the civil rights movement and served as assistant to the state NAACP field directors, Medger and Charles Evers. He attended Tufts University in Boston, and Manchester College in Oxford, England. He was ordained in 1969, which coincided with the founding of the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation, by dissident members of the First Unitarian Society. Frazier came to Cleveland to serve as minister for this newly formed congregation. This collection consists of correspondence, financial records, sermons, speeches, school records, newspaper clippings, and other printed items pertaining to Frazier's involvement in the civil rights movement, the Unitarian-Universalist Church and the Humanist Fellowship of Liberation.

 

Cleveland Tuskegee Alumni Association (f. 1940)

Records 1940-1970 2 containers MS 3595

The Cleveland Tuskegee Alumni Association, a local chapter of the national alumni association, was formed in 1940 by Cleveland area alumni of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. Attorney Frank C. Lyons served as the organization’s first president. Its main function was to raise money for scholarships and other programs for Tuskegee Institute. In particular, money was raised to go toward the George Washington Carver Foundation Endowment Fund, the Tuskegee Institute Airport, the United Negro College Fund, and other related programs. The Tuskegee Alumni Association records consist of correspondence, certificates, scrapbooks, minutes, newspaper clippings, photographs, alumni constitutions, programs, biographical sketches and other printed items.

 

Progressive Baptist District Association (f.1918)

Records 1953-1957, 1961, 1968-1969. 1 container MS 3596

The Progressive Baptist District Association is a Cleveland unit of the

National Baptist Convention, the largest African American religious organization in the United States. Its primary function was to promote Christian ideals and values through its various programs and projects. This collection contains a scrapbook, a fiftieth anniversary commemorative publication, and a church program.

 

Merle M. McCurdy (1913-1968)

Papers 1960-1968 1 container MS 3597

Merle M. McCurdy was a Western Reserve University graduate who became

Cleveland's first African American Public Defender in 1960. In 1961 he was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. He continued to serve in this post during the Johnson Administration until his death in May of 1968. This collection contains correspondence, greeting cards, a newsletter, and a speech delivered at the NAACP national convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1962.

 

Lomond Association (f.1963)

Records 1963-1971 1 container MS 3598

The Lomond Association was founded in 1963 by a group of conscientious

residents who were interested in developing an integrated neighborhood and maintaining its community standards. This collection contains correspondence, committee minutes, reports, studies, and miscellaneous printed items pertaining to the Lomond Association.

 

Henry Lee Moon Family, Series I

Papers ca. 1910-1964 2 containers MS 3628

Henry Lee Moon (1901-1985) was the youngest of the three surviving children born to Roddy K. Moon and Leah A. Himes. Roddy K. Moon was the first president of the Cleveland Branch of the NAACP (f. 1912). Henry Lee Moon's mother was a cousin of writer Chester Himes. Moon graduated from Howard University in 1923 and received his master’s degree in journalism from Ohio State University in 1924. He served as the director of press relations for Tuskegee Institute from 1926 to 1931. He wrote for a number of newspapers and publications including the Amsterdam News, The Cleveland Call, The Chicago Defender, Phylon, The New Republic, The National Urban League’s Opportunity Magazine, The London Tribune, and the New York Times. From 1938 to

1944 he was a regional advisor on race relations for the Federal Public Housing Authority. He later became the director of public relations for the NAACP. Henry Lee Moon married Mollie Virgil Lewis of Cleveland and they adopted one child, Mollie Lee. Mrs. Mollie Moon was a social worker and founder of the National Urban League Guild. This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, articles, letters, bulletins, certificates, awards, programs, notes, journals, cards, telegrams, press releases, and other items related to Henry Lee Moon and the Moon family.

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