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We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Forest City Hospital Association located at 701 Parkwood Dr. A group of Black physicians formed Cleveland’s first interracial hospital in response to their systemic exclusion from White hospitals. It served patients in the Glenville neighborhood, which had experienced a demographic shift as it went from a largely Jewish to Black neighborhood. Persistent financial difficulties, declining admissions, and the integration of the healthcare field led to its demise.

Learn more here: https://case.edu/ech/articles/f/forest-city-hospital. Photo credit: March 1959 Journal of the National Medical Association. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the E. 85th Street Club. As federal urban renewal programs failed to stabilize urban neighborhoods, street clubs like E. 85th Street filled the void. It organized community events and cleaning programs to increase the betterment of its block.

Learn more here: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/666. Photo credit: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CleCivilRightsSites

POSTPONED: With the recent passing of Cleveland Br

POSTPONED: With the recent passing of Cleveland Browns icon Jim Brown, we will be postponing the unveiling of the Ali Summit Marker at Cleveland Browns Stadium scheduled for Thursday, May 25, 2023. Look for an updated event date to be released soon. For more information on the Ali Summit and Cleveland Civil Rights Trail, visit https://clevelandcivilrightstrail.org/

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Domestic Workers of America. Formed in 1965, the organization was led by CORE member Geraldine Roberts. With early financial support from Cleveland CORE, DWA located its headquarters at the Bruce Klunder Freedom House at 5120 Woodland Ave. The organization lasted well into the 1990s and successfully advocated for unemployment expenses, worker’s compensation, minimum wage standards, and social security benefits. Composed mostly of older black women, DWA also illustrated the turn from direct action protest to community organizing.

Photo credit: Bernie Noble. Courtesy of Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

Announcing the 7th marker along the Cleveland Civi

Announcing the 7th marker along the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail!

Join CRS and the Cleveland Browns on Thursday May 25th at 4:30 pm at the Cleveland Browns Stadium for the unveiling of the Ali Summit Marker to honor the historic event and the Cleveland Brown athletes who were involved.

Learn more about the event here: https://clevelandcivilrightstrail.org/resources/events/

Photo: The press meeting, now called the Ali Summit. In attendance were Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, John Wooten, Curtis McClinton, Sidney Williams, Bobby Mitchell, Jim Shorter, Willie Davis, Walter Beach III, Carl Stokes, Lorenzo Ashley, Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Photo courtesy of the Western Reserve Historical Society.

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Tonight’s the night! Thank you to all of our spo

Tonight’s the night! Thank you to all of our sponsors for their support of our ’23 Annual Benefit at The Longfellow! Looking forward to celebrating the adaptive reuse of Henry W. Longfellow Elementary School.

#Cleveland #collinwood #event #architecture #adaptivereuse #HistoricPreservation #nonprofit #preservation #ClevelandHistory #benefit

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Collinwood High School Riots at 15210 St Clair Ave. Many serious, racially motivated confrontations took place in Collinwood over a fifteen-year period. The first major incident at Collinwood High School occurred in 1965. In April 1970, after another episode of racial violence, the mayor kept the school open, but protected it with policemen backed by National Guard units.

Learn more here: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/392. Photo credit: Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Cleveland State University Black Studies Program. The Black Studies Program was founded in 1969 under the leadership of Dr. Ralph Pruitt. Its creation followed significant activism by black and white students on campus to enhance representation for minorities in all aspects of University life, including in academics, research, scholarship, and extra-curricular activities The Afro-American Cultural Center (currently the Howard A. Mims African American Cultural Center) opened in 1970 to enhance opportunities for community and campus collaboration and student engagement, while also sponsoring exhibits and talks highlighting African American history, politics, art, and writing.

Photo credit: Cleveland State University. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

LAST CHANCE! Purchase your ticket or sponsorship t

LAST CHANCE! Purchase your ticket or sponsorship today to Revived! our Annual Benefit Thursday, May 11 at 5:30 at The Longfellow, 650 E. 140th St. Cleveland. Proceeds support our advocacy efforts and historic preservation programs. Come tour The Longfellow, a former elementary school built in 1924, soon to be an affordable senior housing community. CRS helped save this building from demolition! Tickets and sponsorships are available here: https://clevelandrestoration.org/2023-benefit. Deadline to register is May 3.

#benefit #architecture #ClevelandHistory #HistoricPreservation #event #adaptivereuse #UpcomingEvents #preservation #nonprofit #Cleveland #collinwood

Don't forget to purchase your ticket or sponsorshi

Don't forget to purchase your ticket or sponsorship to Revived! our Annual Benefit on Thursday, May 11th at 5:30pm at The Longfellow, 650 E. 140th St. in Cleveland. Proceeds support our advocacy efforts and historic preservation programs.

Come tour The Longfellow, a former elementary school built in 1924, soon to be an affordable senior housing community. CRS helped save this building from demolition! Tickets and sponsorships are available here: https://clevelandrestoration.org/2023-benefit. Deadline to register is May 3.

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People located at 4807 Cedar Avenue. Founded by Eliza Bryant, Emma Ransom, and Mesdames Baker, the institution was the first Black established and maintained social welfare institution in Cleveland. With no government funding, Black residents and philanthropists supported the institution to house elderly people.

Learn more here: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/859. Photo credit: Cleveland Public Library. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Boddie Recording Company located at 12202 Union Avenue. From 1958 to 1993, Thomas and Louise Boddie’s industrious Boddie Recording Company was Cleveland's first African American owned and operated recording studio, serving a clientele ranging from gospel, soul, and rhythm & blues groups, to rock, bluegrass, and country musicians from as far away as Detroit and West Virginia.

Learn more here: https://case.edu/ech/articles/b/boddie-recording-co. #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

Don’t delay! Purchase your ticket or sponsorship

Don’t delay! Purchase your ticket or sponsorship today to Revived! our Annual Benefit Thursday, May 11th at 5:30pm at The Longfellow, 650 E. 140th St. in Cleveland. Proceeds support our advocacy efforts and historic preservation programs.

Come tour The Longfellow, a former elementary school built in 1924, soon to be an affordable senior housing community. CRS helped save this building from demolition! Tickets and sponsorships are available here: https://clevelandrestoration.org/2023-benefit. Deadline to register is May 3.

#Cleveland #Benefit #UpcomingEvents #clevelandhistory #event #architecture #preservation #HistoricPreservation #ClevelandHistory #nonprofit #adaptivereuse #collinwood

We are spotlighting the significant events, organi

We are spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Cleveland chapter of the Black Panther Party. No official Black Panther Party existed in Cleveland prior to 1970. Given the strong-hold Black Nationalists organizations had in Hough and Glenville, the Panthers established its office in the Kinsman neighborhood. Although not as effective as the Oakland, California chapter, the Cleveland chapter organized community programs to help poor and working-class residents, educated its membership, formed alliances, and experienced constant police harassment.

Learn more here: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=osu1184190361&disposition=inline. Photo credit: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University, Library Special Collection #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

In this new series, we will be spotlighting the si

In this new series, we will be spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on Annette Ogletree. This biology teacher in the Cleveland Public Schools became the center of two student protests at East High and John F. Kennedy High schools in October 1968 and April 1969, respectively, for teaching students Black Nationalism. Her transfer from East High led a group that called itself the United Black Student Alliance to draft a list of grievances and walk out of school the next day. Demanding a greater need for security inside and outside of school, teachers walked out the following day. In April, about 100 students and sympathizers organized a 10-mile march from JFK High to downtown to protest Ogletree’s pending transfer. The group never reached the school board office, but the Superintendent sent staff home early, canceled a meeting, and closed the building out of caution.

Photo credit: Call and Post, March 27, 1971 #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

In this new series, we will be spotlighting the si

In this new series, we will be spotlighting the significant events, organizations, and individuals that shaped Cleveland during the modern civil rights movement. Today, we are focusing on the Afro Set Black Nationalist Party, founded by Harllel Jones. The Afro Set was primarily responsible for the rise of Black Nationalist sentiment in Cleveland. It was based in the Hough neighborhood.

Learn more here: https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/777. Photo credit: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University, Library Special Collection #Cleveland #CivilRights #CLECivilRightsSites

Tour 3 private homes in the Franklin-West Clinton

Tour 3 private homes in the Franklin-West Clinton Historic District! Our April SNOOP! tour is an Open House of three homes in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, with homeowners who used the services of Cleveland Restoration Society's Heritage Home Program. Founded 31 years ago, the Heritage Home Program provides low interest loans and free housing maintenance and rehabilitation advice. These services proved useful for the varied renovation projects the homeowners tackled in homes built around 1900 -- from modest improvements to an extensive addition and bath and kitchen renovations.

Become a CRS member and register today at www.clevelandrestoration.org/snoop-tours.

You are invited to tour and dine at our 2023 Benef

You are invited to tour and dine at our 2023 Benefit at the nationally recognized historic site of the Henry W. Longfellow Elementary School, now ready to fulfill a new use as The Longfellow, a high-quality affordable senior housing community. The Longfellow is an historic preservation success story that highlights the positive effect adaptive reuse can have on the city's neighborhoods and their historic and cultural identities.

Don't miss this unique, one-time-only opportunity to see The Longfellow before it is fully occupied and support the organization that helped save it from demolition! Proceeds from this Benefit will help save other Longfellows and sustain the programs of the Cleveland Restoration Society – including the Heritage Home Program℠, Sacred Landmarks Support Initiative, Cleveland’s Civil Rights Trail and Cleveland’s Historic Black Church Initiative. Register at clevelandrestoration.org/2023-benefit.

#Benefit #cleveland #historicpreservation #UpcomingEvents

Apply today for our Development and Communications

Apply today for our Cultural Heritage Specialist p

Apply today for our Cultural Heritage Specialist position!

The Cultural Heritage Specialist will help preserve and valorize historic sites in Cleveland that played an important role in the struggle for African American civil rights. Together with the Director of Preservation Services & Publications and other key CRS staff, the Specialist will help coordinate and implement the Cleveland Civil Rights Trail project. The Cultural Heritage Specialist will also help build the story of Cleveland’s Black Churches through research, writing and production of media presentations. The goal of Cleveland Restoration Society’s new initiative, the Preservation of Cleveland’s historic Black Church, is to spotlight the historic and cultural significance of these sacred landmarks while preserving their physical space.

View the job posting at clevelandrestoration.org/get-involved/employment-opportunities. #hiring #job #jobseekers #jobposting

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