As late as 1970, the only Cleveland suburbs with appreciable numbers of African Americans were East Cleveland, Warrensville Heights, parts of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights, and tiny enclaves in Berea, Linndale, and Woodmere. As this map makes clear, integration occurred mostly in contiguous fashion to the northeast and southeast of the original black concentration in Cedar-Central and was characterized by racial resegregation (meaning that previously all- or mostly white areas rapidly became all- or mostly black). The Cuyahoga Plan tried to battle the forces that concentrated black movement in narrow channels by seeking to create a housing market based on choice. Its goal was to integrate the whole metropolitan area so that no community could be seen as all-white and so that the pressure of racial change would not be so great in a very few places. The larger idea was to use open housing to reframe prejudicial perceptions of race and housing. Although the Cuyahoga Plan made some progress, even today the majority of African Americans remain concentrated in an only somewhat expanded crescent or boomerang-shaped area. | Creator: Real Property Inventory | Date: 1971 | Source: Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
Creator
Real Property Inventory
Source
Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
Date
1971
"Black Population of Cuyahoga County by Census Tract, 1970" appears in: The Cuyahoga Plan
