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Content: What is jazz? — Cleveland’s earliest links to jazz — The jazz age in Cleveland — Art Tatum at Val’s in the alley — Duke Ellington in Cleveland — Count Basie’s Cleveland connections — The big band era — Central High School — Freddie Webster — Tadd Dameron — Meet Benny Bailey — Cleveland jazz clubs — Cleveland jazz…
The author, Olivia Lapeyrolerie, graduated from the University of St. Andrews, located in Scotland, where she received a Master of Arts in Modern History. This publications is the thesis she submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree in January 2015. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Olivia chose to write her dissertation on the 1966 Hough Riots to learn more…
For a brief time in Cleveland, I was the man of power. I had what no black man in this country has had before: direct control of government of predominantly white population. That power came to me because I seized a situation that had made me seem like a savior to men who ordinarily look on blacks as an alien…
During the night of July 18, 1966, racial turmoil in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood resulted in one of the most serious outbreaks of civil disorder in the city’s history. A week later, when the National Guard had finally restored order, four people were dead, dozens were injured, hundreds of fires had been reported, and millions of dollars of property had been…