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"Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects indirectly. For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.” (From a speech delivered at The National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., on March 31, 1968, Congressional Record, April 9, 1968) The Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University
People Represented in the African-American Cultural Garden (proposed)
Prominent African-Americans noted in The Cleveland Memory Project
- Edward W. Crosby, Director, Institute for African American Studies, Kent State University
- Benjamin O. Davis, America's First African American General Public Safety Director, City of Cleveland
- Thomas W. Fleming, First African American to win election to the Cleveland City Council
- Chester K. Gillespie, Lawyer, Chief Justice, Cleveland Municipal Court
- James L. Hardiman, Lawyer, President, NAACP of Cleveland
- John Oliver Holly, Jr., Founder of the Future Outlook League
- Gloria Makedda Judkins, Publisher of the Black Women's Journal
- Carl B. Stokes, 51st Mayor of Cleveland
- Louis Stokes, Politician
Further Reading on African-American History
Africans in America- PBS Programming from 1998
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History- entry for African-Americans
Slide shows on Black History in Cleveland
African Americans in Cleveland, The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
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