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The Van Sweringen Developments In Cleveland: A Senior Thesis On The Van Sweringens, Joseph G. Blake
The Van Sweringen Developments In Cleveland: A Senior Thesis On The Van Sweringens, Joseph G. Blake
Cleveland Memory
The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis was submitted by Joseph G. Blake in May 1968 to the History Department of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in partial fulfillment for a Bachelor of Arts Degree. It examines the Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, and the Cleveland Terminal development.
"No Water For Niggers": The Hough Riots And The Historiography Of The Civil Rights Movement, Olivia Lapeyrolerie
"No Water For Niggers": The Hough Riots And The Historiography Of The Civil Rights Movement, Olivia Lapeyrolerie
Cleveland Memory
The author, Olivia Lapeyrolerie, graduated from the University of St Andrews, located in Scotland, where she received a Master of Arts in Modern History. This publication is the thesis she submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree in January 2015. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Olivia chose to write her dissertation on the 1966 Hough Riots to learn more about her hometown.
Promises Of Power: A Political Autobiography, Carl B. Stokes
Promises Of Power: A Political Autobiography, Carl B. Stokes
Cleveland Memory
For a brief time in Cleveland, I was the man of power. I had what no black man in this country has had before: direct control of the government of a predominantly white population. That power came to me because I seized a situation that had made me seem like a savior to men who ordinarily look on blacks as an alien and vaguely dangerous force. –Excerpt from chapter 1 “Big Man, Little Man.” Other chapters include “How to Get Elected by White People,” Carl Junior,” "The Media,” “The Police,” and “The Future of Black Politics.” Carl B. Stokes …