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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters , providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights .
April: The Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage Party dissolves and reforms as the League of Women Voters of Cleveland. [44] September: The Political Equality Club of Lima dissolves and creates the Lima League of Women Voters. [41] 1923. A voter referendum passes to remove the phrase "white male" from the description of a voter in the Ohio ...
Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins (1952–), first woman of color to serve as president of the League of Women Voters and the only one in the first hundred years of the League. [9] Florence Kelley (1859–1932), a social and political reformer active in NAWSA and instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters, the National Consumers League and the ...
The Greater Cleveland area is the most diverse region in the state of Ohio and is becoming increasingly more diverse with new waves of immigration. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] As of 2010, both the Hispanic and Asian population in the Cleveland-Akron-Ashtabula area grew by almost 40%, Hispanics now number at 112,307 (up from 80,738 in 2000). [ 15 ]
Ralph Perk meeting President Richard Nixon in 1973 Former Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes "passes the torch" to Mayor-Elect Ralph J. Perk in 1971. As mayor, Perk benefited from his good connections with President Richard Nixon, allowing Cleveland to obtain federal funds to aid neighborhoods and to help crack down on city crime in the era of Irish American mobster Danny Greene. [3]
An example of one of the quiet controversies that arose from Andrew Carnegie's cultural mission of funding of libraries occurred in Davenport, Iowa when Carnegie empowered his personal secretary, James Bertram (Carnegie secretary), to establish the eligibility requirements for a community to receive funding, which Alice S. Tyler quietly but strongly objected to. [4]
The Greater Cleveland Auto Show opens Feb. 23 and runs through March 3. The auto show hours vary. It is open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. the opening day. The remaining show hours are: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m ...
The city renamed a free overnight summer and winter camp for Cleveland's youth as Camp George L. Forbes. The camp is located in Highland Hills. In late 2008, Forbes helped broker a deal with African American ministers to drop their effort to repeal Cleveland's Domestic Partner Registry ordinance. [11]