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Harold Burton: From Cleveland Mayor to Supreme Court Justice: Lecture by Joe Blake, October, 2022

Harold Burton: From Cleveland Mayor to Supreme Court Justice
Lecture by historian Joe Blake, October, 2022

Shaker resident Harold H. Burton was Mayor of Cleveland, U.S. Senator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. His father Alfred accompanied Peary to the North Pole and his sister was the children’s author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton.

Historian Joe Blake explores Burton’s political career and his legacy, including Burton’s tenure as a Republican Mayor during the New Deal, and his Supreme Court appointment just as the Court began to reexamine judicial support for segregation.
Cosponsored by Shaker Public Library and Shaker Historical Society.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland celebrating 100th anniversary, Thursday August 10, 2023

 

John Kuntz, cleveland.com
A look inside the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, August 8, 2023
Allison Sutkowy, Marketing Supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, explains the details and history of the original vault built by York Safe & Lock Company from York, Pennsylvania

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland celebrating 100th anniversary (photos from exclusive tour)
Cleveland.com, Thursday August 10, 2023
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Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed, Cleveland.com Weds August 9, 2023

Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed
Cleveland.com, Weds August 9, 2023

By Andrew J. Tobias and Jake Zuckerman, jzuckerman@cleveland.com

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio’s State Issue 1 has failed as voters rejected Republican lawmakers’ attempt to make it harder for the public to propose and approve changes to the state constitution.
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What Happened When Violence Broke Out on Cleveland’s East Side 50 Years Ago? From Smithsonian Magazine

Fire fighters attempt to douse a smoldering building on Superior following the shootout in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland on July 23, 1968. Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University

What Happened When Violence Broke Out on Cleveland’s East Side 50 Years Ago?
In the summer of 1968, the neighborhood of Glenville erupted in “urban warfare,” leaving seven dead and heightening police-community tensions
by Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, July 24, 2018

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Turning Cleveland into a freshwater capital by Brent Larkin July 23, 2023

Burke Lakefront Airport, pictured from the air at the 2015 Cleveland National Air Show, is one of the city’s impediments to full use of its lakefront. With intensified lakefront planning both by the city and county, that could change. (Chuck Crow/The Plain Dealer) The Plain Dealer

Opinion by Brent Larkin, The Plain Dealer, July 23, 2023
Turning Cleveland into a freshwater capital
The failure to provide meaningful access to and to build an economy around all that freshwater has been one of this community’s longest-running failures.

Now that may be changing — in a major way.

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Issue 1 aims at the heart of Ohioans’ citizen initiative powers. Here’s how we won them: Mike Curtin cleveland.com July 9, 2023

 

Efforts to use a constitutional amendment to give women in Ohio the vote in 1912 failed, but Ohio voters that year adopted the revolutionary concept of the citizen initiative — allowing average citizens to propose and pass amendments to the Ohio Constitution to counter Statehouse corruption and special-interest influence. One hundred and eleven years later, Issue 1 on the Aug. 8 ballot seeks to narrow those rights. In a guest column today, journalist Mike Curtin, an expert on Ohio constitutional history, looks at the history of the citizen initiative and what prompted Ohio to become the 13th state to adopt it. Shutterstock

Issue 1 aims at the heart of Ohioans’ citizen initiative powers. Here’s how we won them
“As the stench of corruption worsened, Ohio produced more strong reform leaders than any other state. Most notable were the Rev. Herbert S. Bigelow of Cincinnati’s Vine Street Congregational Church, Cleveland Mayor Tom L. Johnson, the Rev. Washington Gladden of the First Congregational Church of Columbus, and Toledo Mayor Samuel M. “Golden Rule” Jones.”
by Mike Curtin

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The inside story of how Larry Doby broke the American League’s color line 76 years ago – Terry Pluto July 5, 2023

Larry Doby in his first MLB game with Cleveland on July 5, 1947.

The inside story of how Larry Doby broke the American League’s color line 76 years ago
by Terry Pluto, Cleveland.com Wednesday July 5, 2023
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Photos: Here’s What Cleveland Looked Like in 1889 from Cleveland Scene

City Hall, 1876
Photos: Here’s What Cleveland Looked Like in 1889
Originally published by H.R. Page and Co. in 1889, Cleveland Illustrated was given to the Michael Schwartz Library of Cleveland State in 2003. The book contained 135 images of early Cleveland. Thankfully, they were saved and preserved and are now a glorious snapshot of what the city looked like before the turn of the century.

Harold Burton: From Cleveland Mayor to Supreme Court Justice (video)

Harold Burton: From Cleveland Mayor to Supreme Court Justice (video)

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Shaker resident Harold H. Burton was Mayor of Cleveland, U.S. Senator and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. His father Alfred accompanied Peary to the North Pole and his sister was the children’s author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton.

Historian Joe Blake explores Burton’s political career and his legacy, including Burton’s tenure as a Republican Mayor during the New Deal, and his Supreme Court appointment just as the Court began to reexamine judicial support for segregation. Cosponsored by the Shaker Historical Society.

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