Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio

A trenchant history of Cleveland’s community organizing movements, detailing their origins, campaigns, and legacies.

Randy Cunningham, a founding member of the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, spent nearly fifteen years researching grassroots efforts that put neighborhood concerns and voices front and center. In Democratizing Cleveland, he chronicles one of the greatest examples of mass civic and democratic education in Cleveland’s history.

The decade between 1975 and 1985 was a thriving...