Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio
by Randy Cunningham
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A trenchant history of Cleveland's community organizing movements, detailing their origins, campaigns, and legacies. Randy Cunningham, a founding member of the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, spent nearly fifteen years researching grassroots efforts that put neighborhood concerns and voices front and center. In Democratizing Cleveland , he chronicles one of the greatest examples of mass civic and democratic education in Cleveland's history. The decade between 1975 and 1985 was a show more thriving period of social movements and community groups built around civil disobedience. Many of these groups, led by women, were able to unite white and black neighborhoods in a common cause. Cunningham introduces readers to the various groups and the causes they took on, covering topics such as: Insurance and bank redlining Community development and urban renewal programs The movement's decline during the Reagan administration show lessTags
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- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Nonfiction, Sociology
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- 307.140977132 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Communities Planning & Development Community Development
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- HN79 .O33 .C86 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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