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This is a graph that compares the percentage of African Americans in Cleveland to the percentage of people with Irish background in the city of Cleveland. This graph will help me determine that my site is a neighborhood that is dominantly Irish…

Mayor Carl Stokes and Cleveland utility director Ben Stefanski talk with reporters one day after the June 22,1969 fire.

This map, created by Howard Whipple Green in 1956, describes the black population in Cleveland for 1930, using the US Census.

Map by Howard Whipple Green of Cleveland's Black Population in 1920.

Charles V. Carr, born in 1903 in Texas, was a civil rights lawyer and Democratic politician in Cleveland.He served as a member of Cleveland City Council from 1945-1975.

Chester K. Gillespie, a lawyer and Republican politician, was a leading civil rights attorney in Cleveland in the 1920s and 1930s. He served three terms in the Ohio General Assembly in the 1930s and 1940s and was President of the Cleveland NAACP…

Born in 1888 in Surry, Virginia, Clayborne George began practicing law in Cleveland in 1920. He served as NAACP President from 1924-1926 and was on the Cleveland City Council from 1926-1933.

By the mid 1960s, Norman Jordan established himself as one of the most prominent Cleveland-based Black Arts writers. Jordan appeared in prominent Black Arts magazines, including Cricket, the Journal of Black Poetry, and Confrontation. He also…

Donald Freeman, a Cleveland public school teacher, was associated with the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), a militant organization involved in and aligned with other Black Nationalist groups in Cleveland during the 1960s. He also co-edited…

Russel and Rowena Jelliffe founded what became known as the Karamu House in 1915.