Friday, January 5, 2024

Glenville civil rights site may become homes, park

On the site of the former Stephen E. Howe Elementary School in Cleveland’s
Glenville neighborhood, a Texas-based developer is proposing to build 68
homes around a new, small park. The site was important in the fight for civil
rights in the 1960s (LDA). CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE THEM.

When the Cleveland Metropolitan School District put 19 former school properties up for sale in 2021, some of them had school buildings on them. Even those that didn’t anymore still had historical value to them. One of those was the former site of the Stephen E. Howe Elementary School in Cleveland’s Glenville neighborhood which was the scene of a fatal incident in the fight for desegregation of the school district.

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