Russell and Rowena Jelliffe papers, 1914-1991.

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Russell and Rowena Jelliffe papers, 1914-1991.

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Consists of correspondence, letters, journals, a diary, date books, speeches, schedules, telegrams, reports, newspaper clippings, Karamu Board of Trustee files, Karamu Foundation files, deeds, publications, blueprints, playscripts, programming information, subject files, memoranda, drawings, manuscripts, research papers and studies, certificates, awards, and scrapbooks. In addition to the personal papers of the Jelliffes, this collection contains a significant collection of the records of Karamu House, including initial negotiations with the Second Presbyterian Men's Club concerning the founding ofNeighborhood Association, administrative files, histories, materials concerning the New Building Campaign of the 1940s, correspondence with Harold T. Clark, programming files, materials concerning the search for a new executive director, playscripts, publications, and scrapbooks. Also included in the collection are letters, notes, and a poem written by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's play, Sermon. Also included are the records of the Karumu Foundation, 1948-1977.

12.71 linear ft.

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Playhouse Settlement.

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Karamu House

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Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe as a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing African American population, in order to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. Originally known as the Playhouse Settlement, it was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927. By 1941, the ent...

Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980.

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Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992.

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