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Monday, October 26, 2020
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The 2020 Presidential election arrives at one of the most contentious racial moments in the last half century. A 2019 Public Religion Research Institute /Atlantic magazine poll found that a majority of Americans (83 percent) believe the country is divided by race. An earlier survey by PRRI in 2018 found that two-thirds of adults who approve...
Friday, November 12, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Former mayor Carl B. Stokes addresses the audience at the City Club Forum a week after his departure from office in 1971. Mayor Stokes addresses his plans for his time as a private citizen, including working towards ensuring minority participation...
Friday, July 09, 1971, 12:00 p.m.
Mayor Carl B. Stokes and Judge Ralph S. Locher
Mayor Carl B. Stokes and former mayor Ralph S. Locher speak at the City Club Forum at the 712 Vincent location in Cleveland, Ohio. Within the context of the City Club's changing location, the mayors discuss the topic of change...
Friday, July 24, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Cleveland's Financial Problems and Tax Reform
Mayor Carl B. Stokes addresses the dire financial state of the city of Cleveland, citing tax reform as the only option for remedying the financial crisis. Stokes elaborates upon how Cleveland proper disproportionately pays for services available to the entire...
Friday, March 13, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Let's Combine Freeways and Rapid Transit
Freeways, as anyone who has attended a City Club forums over the years knows, is a burning issue in Greater Cleveland. So is rapid transit. In some cities, notably Chicago, rapid transit facilities have been built into median strips of...
Friday, January 02, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Congressman Louis Stokes has been in the news recently because of his activity as a membr of the ad hoc unofficial committee investigating the recent Black Panther shooting. Although this is his very first term in Congress, he has served...
Monday, November 03, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
César Chávez has won natinal attention for his efforts to organize farm workers who toil in West Coast vineyards. Chávez, whom the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy called "one of the heroic figures of our time," was born on his grandfather's...
Friday, May 16, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
American lawyer and sports administrator Bowie Kent Kuhn, recently elected the fifth commissioner of Major League Baseball, speaks about 'the state of the national pastime.' Kuhn addresses the City Club Forum on the topic of Major League rules and regulations,...
Friday, March 14, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Harllel Jones, founder and prime minister of the group Afro Set, speaks on the topics of black nationalism and racism in Cleveland.The Afro Set was a product of the Cleveland NOW program, an initiative of Mayor Carl B. Stokes intented...
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