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The Advocate (f.1914)
Newspaper, 1915-1920 4 microfilm rolls
Established by Ormonde Forte, a native of Barbados, under the auspices of the Cleveland Advocate Publishing Company, the paper covered issues such as the Black migration and World War I. In 1918 Forte changed the name of the paper to The Cleveland Advocate.
James Barnaby
Papers, 1842-1865 1 microfilm roll
James Barnaby was a member of the Western Anti-Slavery Society’s executive committee. This collection includes documents of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, including cash pledges, moneys collected, cash accounts, the Anti-Slavery Bugle’s account book and subscription list. Also included is a list of Ohio Anti-Slavery Society members.
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932)
Papers, 1889-1932 1 microfilm roll
Charles W. Chesnutt was Cleveland’s most distinguished novelist and short story writer. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and became a stenographer with an office in the Union Trust Building. Distinguished correspondents, including W.E.B. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, and John P. Green, are highlights of the collection.
Cleveland Call & Post (f.1926)
Newspaper, 1934- 111 microfilm rolls
This influential newspaper was formed in 1926 with the merger of the Cleveland Call newspaper, established by Garrett A. Morgan, and the Post newspaper established by a fraternal organization.
Cleveland Gazette (f.1883)
Newspaper, 1883-1941, 1945 20 microfilm rolls
Harry Clay Smith, state politician and activist, edited and published this title from 1883 to 1941. Smith was a member of the National Afro-American League, the Niagara Movement and a number of local political organizations.
Cleveland Journal (f.1903)
Newspaper, 1903-1910 2 microfilm rolls
Published weekly by the Journal Publishing Company, Nahum Brasher, Welcome T. Blue, and Thomas W. Fleming, proprietors. The publishers represented a new breed of African American leadership that was proponents of the self-reliance theories of Booker T. Washington. The paper discussed racial issues and business development.
The Field Diary of P.D. Covington, Captain, Company F 118th United States Colored Infantry
Diary, 1864-1866 1 microfilm roll
Ohioan Perry Decatur Covington (1842-1916) enlisted (1862) in Company B, 88th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to Captain of Company F, 118th U.S. Colored Infantry in 1864. The regiment was stationed at Fort Brady, Virginia in 1864 and 1865, participating in the siege, capture and occupation of Petersburg. The regiment then was then transferred to occupation duty in Texas until mustering out on February 6, 1866. diary entries include an index, physical descriptions of Company members, ordinances, morning report book, remarks, and descriptions of field deaths of Company F along with obituaries. The diary is invaluable to African American, Civil War and military history research.
John Patterson Green (1845-1940)
Papers, 1869-1910 6 microfilm rolls
John P. Green was the first elected official of African American ancestry in Cleveland, becoming justice of the peace in 1873, state representative in 1882 and state senator in 1892. He sponsored the bill in the Ohio Senate in 1890 that officially recognized Labor Day as a holiday in Ohio. He served in Republican Party campaigns from 1872 well into the 1900s. Under the McKinley administration he was appointed U.S. Postal Stamp Agent from 1897 to 1905.
Andrew Jackson II
Account Book, 1845-1877 1 microfilm roll
The Hermitage Plantation account book details the operation of the plantation by Andrew Jackson II, the son of U.S. President Andrew Jackson. Included are entries of names of enslaved Africans and accounts of the deaths at the Hermitage during the 1844 cholera epidemic.
Mary Brown Martin (1877-1939)
Scrapbook, 1905-1906, 1933-1940, 1962 1 microfilm roll
Mary B. Martin was the first African American elected to the Cleveland Board of Education (1929-1939). A former teacher in Birmingham, Alabama and Cleveland, she married attorney Alexander Hamilton Martin in 1905. Martin was also one of the few African American women active in the local women’s suffrage movement.
Garrett Augustus Morgan (1877-1963)
Papers, 1916-1963 1 microfilm roll
Garrett A. Morgan, the inventor of the gas mask and traffic signal, was an entrepreneur and businessman. Morgan filed a patent for the safety helmet (gas mask) in 1912 and the traffic signal in 1923. A man of varied interests, he invented a hair straightening treatment, marketing it through the Garrett A. Morgan Hair Refining Company. Morgan also founded the Cleveland Call newspaper.
Mt. Zion Congregational Church (f.1864)
Record Book, 1879-1890 1 microfilm roll
This record book contains minutes, notes, and membership lists detailing activities of the first African American Congregational Church in Ohio.
George A. Myers (1859 -1930)
Papers, 1890-1929 8 microfilm rolls
Filmed from the originals in the collections of the Ohio Historical Society, the papers are primarily correspondence and letters of this well-known Cleveland barber and Republican Party political power broker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Noted correspondents include William McKinley, Marcus A. Hanna, John P. Green, Jere Brown, Ralph Tyler, Robert Terrell, Bishop Benjamin Arnett, Rev. Reverdy Ransom, T. Thomas Fortune, John R. Lynch, William Clifford, W.T. Anderson, Harry C. Smith, Charles Cottrill, and other political leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
William S. and Sarah B. Scarborough (1852-1926, 1851-)
Papers, 1797-1935 2 microfilm rolls
William S. Scarborough was President of Wilberforce University and a talented tenth race man of the early 1900s. He was a member of the American Negro Academy. Sarah Bierce was a longtime teacher and principal of the Normal Department of Wilberforce. The collection also contains valuable genealogical material relating to the Abbey, Bierce and Scarborough families.
Universal Negro Improvement Association (f.1914)
Records, 1921-1986 16 microfilm rolls
This fraternal organization, founded by Marcus Garvey in Kingston, Jamaica, was the advocate of Pan-African philosophy. This collection contains documentation of the Cleveland Division, primarily after 1949, although some date to the early 1920s.
Western Anti-Slavery Society (f.1832)
Records, 1857-1864 2 microfilm rolls
This microfilm is a joint project of the Western Reserve Historical Society and the Salem (Ohio) Historical Society. Included are the minute book of the executive committee, 1857-1864, including bylaws and the annual reports of the committee, housed in Ms. 554, financial records of the society, 1845-1847, housed in Container 1, Folder 3 of the James Barnaby Papers, Ms. 1007, and minutes and annual reports of the Executive Committee, 1848 to 1856, and financial accounts of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, 1851-1858, comprising volumes 6 and 7 of the Salem Historical Society. Headquartered first in New Lisbon and later in Salem, Ohio, the Western Anti-Slavery Society was second in size among Abolitionist organizations to the American Anti-Slavery Society. Noted members were James Barnaby, Marius Robinson, and Benjamin Jones. Entries include the resignation of Robinson as editor of the Anti-Slavery Bugle, and Benjamin Jones’ appointment to replace him.
Voice of the League (f.1937)
Newspaper, 1937-1941 1 microfilm roll
This newspaper was the propaganda arm of the Future Outlook League, an economic and jobs rights organization formed in Cleveland by John O. Holly, Jr. in 1935. Juanita Thomas initially edited the biweekly.
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