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1. Documentary about Flora Stone Mather written and produced by Gladys Haddad for Case Western Reserve University, College of Arts and Sciences.
2. Speech given by Gladys Haddad in 2007 author of “Flora Stone Mather: Daughter of Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue and Ohio’s Western Reserve”
Documentary #1
Dr. John Grabowski, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, James JT Toman and Greg Deegan discuss Mayor Tom L. Johnson (1901-1909) when Cleveland, OH was known as “The City on the Hill”
Created by: Nicole Majercak, Donald Majercak, Richard Kiovsky for Teaching Cleveland
Documentary #2
2009 National History Day Documentary on Tom L. Johnson, the mayor of Cleveland from 1901 to 1909. By Nat Henry, Isaac Hoffman, Leo Katz, Jacob Miller, and Jack O’Halloran, all from Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Documentary about Howard M. Metzenbaum US Courthouse, one of the cornerstones of “The Group Plan”
Includes a nice history of the origins of “The Group Plan”
From the video: “Opened 1910, this historical building housed the U.S. Post Office, District Court, and Circuit Court. The building was originally known as the Old Federal Building and Post Office.”
Documentary about Garrett Morgan from the History Channel
Documentary about the creation of the Cleveland Clinic
The Life of Frances Payne Bolton –
From PBS/Channel 13 New York – “The Life of Frances Payne Bolton – politician, humanitarian, philanthorpist and patriot”
The link is here
Ohio and the World: The Civil War Era. Chpter written by Eric Foner.
Exerpt from “Veeck – A Man for Any Season” produced in 1985
2. Satchel Paige – a Short Video
Promotional video for “Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend” a book by Larry Tye
A short overview of Satchel Paige, one of the heroes of the 1948 Cleveland Indians
3. Alone in the Shadows: The Triumph of Larry Doby
A National History Day documentary by Gabe Pincus, Jacob Hutt, and Adam Ratner about the struggles Larry Doby overcame as the second African-American Major League Baseball player. Placed 1st in Ohio and 14th at Nationals.
Horrific Collinwood school fire of 1908 remembered in new movie Cleveland.com 10.27.16