Despite Hough’s lingering physical scars, national and local media attention garnered by the 1966 uprising effectively raised awareness of the social and economic inequalities faced by African Americans living in Cleveland’s segregated east side. A spotlight was directed onto the deterioration of community race relations under Mayor Locher’s leadership, as well as the failures of his administration’s urban renewal programs. Tarnished by his administration’s inability to address the problems of a city in transformation, Locher was unseated in the Democratic primary by Carl B. Stokes in 1967. Unifying Cleveland’s diverse black and ethnic communities with promises of stability and reform, Stokes was narrowly elected mayor of Cleveland one month later. The election witnessed the largest black voter turnout in the city’s history. | 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
