African American Cultural Garden adds Civil Rights Trail marker, Cleveland.com June 14, 2023

 

 

The “Doorway of No Return” at the The African American Cultural Garden, still under construction in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens.Zachary Smith, Cleveland.com

African American Cultural Garden celebrates Juneteenth, adds Civil Rights Trail marker
by Paris Wolfe, Cleveland.com June 14, 2023
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2 articles on the demise of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Cleveland Plain Dealer January 16 and 17, 1978 by Michael J. Howard

2 articles on the demise of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Cleveland Plain Dealer January 16 and 17, 1978

Written by Michael J. Howard

“Whatever Became of the Cultural Gardens?” January 16, 1978 The pdf is here

“A Plan to Save the Cultural Gardens” January 17, 1978 The pdf is here

 

Their Paths are Peace. A history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens by Clara Lederer 1954

Their Paths are Peace
by Clara Lederer
© Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation
1954

For many years the only history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens 

Still worth reading

The link is here

In Rockefeller Parkway, along the steep hillsides, between the upper and lower driveways of the East Boulevard, cling the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, with individual units or links, each emblazoning a distinct message of cultural aspiration each singing a song of the far away homeland of a people that is building anew and in that process of contributing of its own inner cultural and spiritual wealth. 

Every gem in this diadem tells not only its own loveliness, but in reflection radiates the color and beauty of its neighbor. The teachings of Cleveland’s Cultural Garden chain are aglow with the spiritual purpose that underlies the way of free and democratic people. For surely, as it was written of true wisdom thousands of years ago: 

“Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.”

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