Glenville

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. Until its annexation by the City of Cleveland in 1905, Glenville had been a small village, serving mainly as a resort community to Cleveland's wealthier residents, just beyond the eastern edge of the city limits. From a period beginning shortly after its annexation and into the 1940s, Glenville was predominantly a Jewish neighborhood with a small African American population. Since the 1960s, racial integration saw an accompanying civil unrest in the neighborhood, which reached its climax...