Resisting Segregation: Cleveland Heights Activists Shape Their Community 1964-1976

It is no accident that Cleveland Heights is a national model of long lasting racial diversity. Even before it was illegal to discriminate in housing, residents of this early suburb challenged the region’s deeply entrenched pattern of housing segregation, fighting for Black access to their community. Working through five different grassroots groups between 1965 and 1976, they opened their community and then resisted pressures to reimpose exclusion. It’s a great story of local activism as a resource for solving complex social problems. I look forward to sharing the story, and the process of uncovering the details of making change.