Suggested Reading

  1. BOOK: ”The Pot!": Poetic Reflections of The Glenville Riots 1968 Cleveland, Ohio by Mutawaf A. Shaheed aka C.E. Shy. “THE POT!” is a book of poetry that reflects the 50 years that have past since the 1968 Glenville Riots in Cleveland, Ohio and the publication of this book. The 50 poems in this book serve as a “door to the past 50 years and the prior 100 years of constant oppression and repression of African Americans in the land of the free.”

  2. BOOK: Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland by James D. Robenalt. On July 23, 1968, police in Cleveland battled with black nationalists in a night of terror that saw 6 people killed and at least 15 wounded. The gun battle touched off days of heavy rioting. The question was whether the shootings were the result of a planned attack on white police, or a matter of self-defense by the nationalists. Mystery still surrounds how the urban warfare started and the role the FBI might have played in its origin.

  3. SmithsonianMag.com. “What Happened When Violence Broke Out on Cleveland’s East Side 50 Years Ago?”. By Lorraine Boissoneault. Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/complicated-history-1968-glenville-shootout-180969734/

  4. WKYC.com. “50 years later: How race and rebellion sparked the Glenville shootout”. Race relations in Cleveland boiled into a deadly shootout, but the story remains untold -- until now. Link: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/history/50-years-later-how-race-and-rebellion-sparked-the-glenville-shootout/95-574384464

  5. BlackPast.org. “CLEVELAND’S HOUGH RIOTS OF 1966” by Kyla Murray. Cleveland’s Hough Riots of 1966 was the first major racial uprising of the decade in an Ohio city but preceded by two years the much more extensive uprising there in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968.  It was, however, a continuation of a series of national confrontations that began sweeping across the nation in 1964 and to that date, the longest riot in the 1960s. Link: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/cleveland-s-hough-riots-of-1966/

  6. Cleveland.com. “Cleveland blamed 1966 Hough riots on outsiders -- and it wasn’t true” by Mary Kilpatrick. Link: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2020/06/cleveland-blamed-1966-hough-riots-on-outsiders-and-it-wasnt-true.html

  7. Cleveland.com. “Cleveland Museum of Art pays tribute to artistic heritage of Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell (photos)” by Steven Litt. The Jarrells, who have lived in Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood for more than a decade, were at the museum to prepare for an extraordinary new show on works that explore their views of life, love, art and family that opens Sunday, Nov. 19. Link: https://www.cleveland.com/arts/2017/11/cleveland_museum_of_art_pays_t_1.html