Although eclipsed by the grand University - Euclid renewal plans, community leaders and local organizations petitioned the city administration for small, realistic projects to be undertaken in Hough. Among their many efforts to improve living conditions in Hough during the 1960s, residents and grassroots groups worked to desegregate and improve schools, provide employment opportunities, rehabilitate housing, board up vacant structures, clean neighborhood grounds, exterminate rodents, enhance public assistance programs and combat the practices of absentee landlords. Despite the patchwork of aid these community groups provided in Hough, enacting necessary systemic changes without support from both Cleveland’s governing bodies and increasingly-removed white populace proved an insurmountable task. The Hough neighborhood had effectively been abandoned to fend for itself as promises of urban renewal made by the local government crumbled. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
