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Through The Ivory Curtain: African Americans In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Before The Fair Housing Movement, J. Mark Souther
Through The Ivory Curtain: African Americans In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Before The Fair Housing Movement, J. Mark Souther
History Faculty Publications
This article examines the largely neglected history of African American struggles to obtain housing in Cleveland Heights, a first-ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, between 1900 and 1960, prior to the fair housing and managed integration campaigns that emerged thereafter. The article explores the experiences of black live-in servants, resident apartment building janitors, independent renters, and homeowners. It offers a rare look at the ways that domestic and custodial arrangements opened opportunities in housing and education, as well as the methods, calculations, risks, and rewards of working through white intermediaries to secure homeownership. It argues that the continued black presence laid …
William Hershey's Profiles In Achievement: The Gifts, Quirks, And Foibles Of Ohio's Best Politicians (University Of Akron Press, 2021) Reviewed In Midwest Book Review, University Of Akron Press
William Hershey's Profiles In Achievement: The Gifts, Quirks, And Foibles Of Ohio's Best Politicians (University Of Akron Press, 2021) Reviewed In Midwest Book Review, University Of Akron Press
News of The University of Akron Press
William Hershey’s Profiles in Achievement: The Gifts, Quirks, and Foibles of Ohio’s Best Politicians is praised as an “impressively informative study of Ohio politics and politicians” that is “exceptionally well written, organized and presented.”
Wood, Diane (Fa 1155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Diane (Fa 1155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1155. Student folk studies project titled “Folk Art and the Pennsylvania German” which includes survey sheets with a brief description of Pennsylvania German and other folk art collected in Burton, Ohio and Warren County, Kentucky. Sheets may include an item or representation of folk art, brief description, photograph, and origin.
Female Cyclists: Two Essays From The 1869 Hancock Jeffersonian, Paige Zenovic
Female Cyclists: Two Essays From The 1869 Hancock Jeffersonian, Paige Zenovic
Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature
Paige Zenovic introduces and explains two nineteenth-century essays from the Findley, Ohio Hancock Jeffersonian on the subject of women riding bicycles from the time when they were first being introduced to Ohio.
Book Review: Bonds Of Union: Religion, Race, And Politics In A Civil War Borderland, By Bridget Ford, John L. Moreland
Book Review: Bonds Of Union: Religion, Race, And Politics In A Civil War Borderland, By Bridget Ford, John L. Moreland
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Review of:
Bridget Ford. Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016. Pp. 383. Cloth, $45.00.
Interview With Reverend Bill Maloney, Edward Seitz
Interview With Reverend Bill Maloney, Edward Seitz
Chicago 1968
Length: 122 minutes
Interview with Reverend Bill Maloney by Edward Seitz
Rev. Maloney begins by explaining how, by virtue of their location alone, his church was at the center of the Conspiracy Seven [aka Chicago Seven] trial, when protesters, press and police would meet inside their building. He then talks about his childhood in East Liverpool, Ohio, growing up a very observant Lutheran family, participating in his high school newspaper and theater, and later, his college radio station. He recalls his time at Youngstown State University studying philosophy and sociology, his experiences in seminary school at Hammond Divinity School, and …
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - Subject Research Files (Fa 747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection FA 747. This collection contains materials relating to a wide array of folklife subjects collected by folklorist Bob Gates for the Kentucky Folklife Program. The majority of the subjects include ethnic or cultural groups, but there is also various information relating to specific arts or traditions. The materials within the folders are mostly articles or copies of articles. Most folders contain information that relates directly to Kentucky, but some are about the topic more in general terms. Files are arranged by subject.
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Galloway, John Marshall, 1844-1937 (Sc 519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 519. Business papers of John M. Galloway, lawyer and judge of Bowling Green, Kentucky, which include petition for election to enable county to purchase railroad stock, 1889; 1890 stock certificates and a 1901 deposition related to Warren Deposit Bank; Peter Perkins’ will, 1891; judgeship certificate, 1903; newspaper clippings and photos kept by Mrs. Galloway, 1873-1930.
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hog Butchering (Fa 24), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 24. Statements and reminiscences of Kentucky residents who participated in or conducted hog butchering in Kentucky. Information was gathered from various informants between 1963-1969. Material is arranged alphabetically by collector, consisting of specific detials about executing hogs, processing and preserving meat, and rendering lard. Includes papers by collectors and photographs. This project was completed by students at Campbellsville College under the guidance of Lynwood Montell.
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Underwood Collection (Mss 58), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected full-text scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 58. Correspondence, diaries, papers, and genealogical materials of Joseph Rogers Underwood, U.S. Senator from Bowling Green, Kentucky, his wife Elizabeth Cox Underwood, his brother Warner Lewis Underwood, and his son, John Cox Underwood.
Bibler, Thomas Edward (Fa 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bibler, Thomas Edward (Fa 8), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 8. Interviews conducted by Thomas Bibler. Includes interviews with Joseph Bryan Houk, Bowling, Kentucky, about his life and Christmas and New Year's customs in Hart County and Warren County, Kentucky, and Columbus, Ohio.
Thomas, Patricia (Fa 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Patricia (Fa 400), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text paper (click on "Additional Files" below) for Folklife Archives Project 400. Paper: "Murder Ballads of Kentucky" written by Patricia Thomas for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Fanslow, Robin A. (Fa 308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fanslow, Robin A. (Fa 308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 308. Paper: "An Examination of the Act of Gift-Giving as an Example of the Folklore of My Family" written by Robin A. Fanslow for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Collins, Sara (Fa 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Collins, Sara (Fa 213), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 213. Paper: "The Folklore of Sorcery" written by Sara Collins for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Casselberry, Anita Beatrice, 1890-1970 (Sc 1378), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1378. Journal, 1925, 79p., kept by Anita B. Casselberry, Cleveland, Ohio, while serving a few weeks as a public health nurse under the direction of Alice Lloyd in Knott County, Kentucky. Also associated letter, 1960-1965?, newspaper clippings, 1940-1941 (2), and photos, 1925 (2).