Additional materials are available on this subject by request.

Contact special.collections@csuohio.edu for more information.

Recommended resources:

• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry
• Books in Special Collection (includes e-books)
• ClevelandHistorical's Hough Story
• Lapayrolerie, Olivia. "No Water for Niggers:" The Hough Riots and the Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement. (Thesis, University of St. Andrews, 2015).
• Michney, Todd M. “Race, Violence, and Urban Territoriality: Cleveland’s Little Italy and the 1966 Hough Uprising.” Journal of American History 32, no. 3 (2006): 404-428.

Photographs

• Cleveland Memory Project photos of Hough
• Cleveland Memory Project Hough Riots Web Exhibit
• Cleveland Memory Project League Park Web Exhibit

Audio/Video

• "Hough Riots, 1966"
• "City Club Forum: 'The Negro Looks at Cleveland.'"
• Cleveland Civil Rights Trail oral histories

Maps & Data

• ESRI's historic maps showing Hough (note layers, by date)
• Cleveland City Planning Commission:  
  • Neighborhood Data Book: Hough (#14)
  • Connect Cleveland 2020 Plan: District 5: Hough*

* "Districts" as used here are clusters of Statistical Planning Areas (SPA), which incorporate different historic neighborhoods, but borders vary.

* * * * *

ALSO: See tabs on different types of resources (maps, newspapers, etc.) on the Local History Guide.