Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland

by Richard Stradling and David Stradling

In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was at its nadir, polluted and impoverished, struggling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801453615
• ISBN13: 9780801453618
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher