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Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 7, 2018
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Todd Michney is in Cleveland to discuss his book and give a guided bus tour hosted by the Cleveland Restoration Society.
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Todd MichneyLast Saturday, August 4, Michney led a guided bus tour hosted by the Cleveland Restoration Society, titled The Roots of Black Sub-Urbanization. “It’s basically about the struggle to achieve the American Dream,” Michney says. “It’s the history of Cleveland’s Black middle class and looking toward the edge of the city for African Americans [who] started moving in the early 1900s.”
Last year, Michney published a book titled Surrogate Suburbs: Black Upward Mobility and Neighborhood Change in Cleveland, 1900 - 1980. The tour follows a book talk Michney held on Thursday.
For more information on these events, see these local news articles:
https://articles.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/08/tour_highlights_clevelands_his.amp
http://www.freshwatercleveland.com/breaking-ground/MichneyTour073018.aspx
