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DEMOCRATIZING CLEVELAND

Democratizing Cleveland is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in the setting of public policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. 

"Democratizing Cleveland provides the best and most detailed description I know of concerning the trials and tribulations facing activists who try to organize for grassroots neighborhood power in major American cities. "   G. William Domhoff Research Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Cruz Author of Who Rules America?   "Democratizing Cleveland offers an incisive description of the neighborhood organizing that characterized Cleveland in the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s.  This book is essential to an understanding of not only the Cleveland neighborhood scene, but the impact of neighborhood organizing on cities across the nation."    Norman Krumholz, Professor Levin College of Urban Affairs Cleveland State University