Thu 5/4 @ 6-7:30PM
The legacy of brothers Carl & Louis Stokes — the former mayor of Cleveland and the first black big-city mayor in the U.S., the latter a longtime congressman — began at Cleveland’s Outhwaite Homes housing project where they moved with their mother in 1938. So it’s fitting that the current ongoing yearlong tribute to them makes a stop there.
Ideasteam’s Living History project will bring: From Outhwaite to Advocate: Public Housing & the Stokes Legacy to the Outhwaite Community Center.
Ideastream reporter Nick Castele will moderate a panel featuring architect Robert P. Madison, who lived in the Outhwaite Homes as a young man; retired Ohio Court of Appeals Judge Sara Harper, who grew up at Outhwaite with the Stokes Brothers; Emeritus Professor of Urban Planning at Cleveland State University Norm Krumholz; and Dr. Mittie Davis Jones, also a CSU emeritus professor and public housing expert who grew up in Detroit public housing.
They’ll talk about how public housing was created, what its initial aims were and how that has changed over the years from communities intended to help people move out of slums and up from poverty to often desperate and violent places that isolate and warehouse the poor.
It’s free; register here.
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Cleveland, OH 44104