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Lifelong Clevelander Chuck E. Hoven recollects his early life growing up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood and attending St. Ignatius High School. Hoven attended John Carroll University as an undergraduate and later attended Cleveland State University for graduate school. Hoven shares his involvement as managing editor for Cleveland's Plain Press, which is a vehicle for many people to raise awareness on community issues like affordable housing. Hoven highlights the imbalances of community…

Marian Morton is a professor at John Carroll University. She has lived in Cleveland Heights since the early 1960s. She wrote a book on Cleveland Heights history and has done photograph books for Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights as well. She does not have a strong personal recollection of what was going on in the city and only discovered much of the state of race relations and integration through her later research.

Nicholas Mazzone talks about growing up in Cleveland's near west side and the clubs and tensions of the 1960s and 1970s.