Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio - Softcover

Cunningham, Randy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948742276 ISBN 13: 9781948742276

Publisher: Belt Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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 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

About this title

About the Author

Standing in the middle of a demonstration protesting Kent State and the war in Vietnam at the University of Missouri in 1970, Randy Cunningham looked around and thought Damn, this is interesting! He has been both an activist and a writer about activists and activism ever since. Cunningham is retired from working in the non-profit housing field and lives on Cleveland's West Side with his wife whom he met in a meeting. He is a founding member of the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus and still considers activism interesting and a source of great stories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Belt Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1948742276
• ISBN 13: 9781948742276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260