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Revision as of 15:38, 24 January 2013
Glenville | |
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Neighborhoods of Cleveland | |
![]() Rockefeller Park with its historic bridges form much of Glenville's western border. | |
Country | United States |
State | Ohio |
County | Cuyahoga County |
City | Cleveland |
Population (2000) | |
• Total | 23,559 |
8.8% decrease from 1990 Census | |
Demographics | |
• White | 1.2% |
• Black | 97.4% |
• Hispanic | >1% |
• Asian | >1% |
• Other | >1% |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP Codes | 44108 |
Area code | 216 |
Median income | $21,686 |
Source: 2000 U.S. Census, City Planning Commission of Cleveland [1] |
Glenville is a neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is roughly bounded between Rockefeller Park between on the west and Lakeview Road on the east, and by the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway on its the north and Wade Park Avenue to the south.
History
The Glenville neighborhood was founded in 1870 and was later annexed to the City of Cleveland in 1905. Glenville had been a small village, serving mainly as a resort community to Cleveland's upper-middle class residents, just beyond the eastern edge of the city limits.[2] From a period beginning shortly after its annexation and into the 1940s, Glenville was predominantly a Jewish neighborhood with a small African American population.[3] Since the 1960s, racial integration saw an accompanying civil unrest in the neighborhood, which reached its climax in the 1968 Glenville Shootout. Like much of the violence associated with civil unrest during the Civil Rights movement in other major US cities, as well as in in the adjacent Hough neighborhood, racial tensions were a catalyst for an ensuing demographic shift.[4] Today, Glenville is predominantly African-American. While having been for over a half century, one of Cleveland's most visible examples of poverty, crime and urban decay, Glenville has in the early 21st century, gained more positive national media attention, particularly in its high school football team, which has rapidly become one of the better known preparatory programs in Ohio as well as the nation.[5][6]
Education
Glenville High School and its feeder schools serve the community at large.
Parks
Glenville is bordered on the northwest by Gordon Park (part of the Cleveland Lakefront State Park district)[7] and on the entirety of its immediate western edge by the winding Rockefeller Park. Built on land donated to the city by John D. Rockefeller in 1897, the wooded 276 acres, through which a section of Martin Luther King Drive runs, is known for its historic greenhouse and the Cultural Gardens, and is the largest park located completely within city limits.[8]
Notable people
The following is a list of residents who at one time were raised in Glenville:
- Rabbi Armond E. Cohen, rabbi of the Cleveland Jewish Center and the Park Synagogue, author, community leader and recipient of the National Human Rights Award
- Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Cleveland based Hip-Hop/Rap group
- Benny Friedman, NFL coach and football player
- Willie Gilbert, playwright
- Ted Ginn Jr., NFL player for San Francisco 49ers
- Steve Harvey, actor & comedian
- Wilson Hirschfeld, journalist
- Jerome Lawrence, playwright
- Hal Lebowitz, sports journalist/editor (most notably for The Plain Dealer)
- Jesse Owens, famed track and field athlete who won four Gold Medals in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of the comic book hero Superman
- Troy Smith, 2006 Heisman Trophy Award winner, former quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and current quarterback of the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League
- Donte Whitner, NFL player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Michael R. White, former Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.
- Pierre Woods, NFL University of Michigan linebacker and player for the New England Patriots
- Ricky Palmer, NFL video assistant Cleveland Browns
- Leslie L. Foldy, former Professor Emeritus of Physics at Case Western Reserve University made famous for the Foldy–Wouthuysen transformation
- Leon Bibb WEWS Television News Anchor
See also
Gregg Anthony, Veteran Award-Winning Radio Newscaster,
References
- ^ http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/census/factsheets/spa28.pdf
- ^ CWRU Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- ^ CWRU Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- ^ CWRU Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- ^ http://www.freep.com/article/20090604/SPORTS07/90603119/1055/rss20
- ^ http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1150869
- ^ http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Portals/2/parkmaps/clevelandparkmap.pdf
- ^ http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/clnd_images/Parks/parks.pdf