Civil rights -- Ohio

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The Subject VIP Files contain photographs of subjects the newspaper staff deemed to be of high use or high importance. These files also aggregated files on the same topic, pulling them together from the various multiple different filing systems, for efficiency and convenience.

Abstract

Includes Executive Board minutes, District Council minutes and proceedings, Conference Board minutes, and Civil Rights Committee minutes. Also included are financial records, election materials, negotiation records, subject files, and photographs.

Abstract Graduates of Wilberforce University, Rev. Wesley Matthews and his wife, Ruth "Pat" Matthews, were active in civil rights, church work, and community organizing in the Dayton, Yellow Springs, and Urbana, Ohio areas. After Rev. Matthews died in 1978, Pat Matthews remarried Wendell Howard, a Springfield pharmacist. Papers in this collection include business and personal correspondence from both families, records from a depression-era WPA education program in Clark County, family photographs, a...

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This collection contains 31 photographs relating to a demonstration that occurred in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1964. There are also copies of court cases that arose from the demonstration. The demonstration arose after a local barber (Lewis Gegner) refused to cut the hair of a black patron.