January 22, 1966
On the history of Cleveland, see Kimberley Phillips’ Alabama North: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in Cleveland, 1915–1945 (1999), David Stradling and Richard Stadling’s Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (2015), and The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and Cleveland Memory Project websites. On the psychological toll of urban renewal on communities, see Mindy Fullilove’s Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It (2005).