Glenville, Cleveland

Glenville
Neighborhoods of Cleveland
Rockefeller Park with its historic bridges form much of Glenville's western border.
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Cuyahoga County
City	Cleveland
Population (2000)
• Total	23,559
	8.8% decrease from 1990 Census
Demographics
• White	1.2%
• Black	97.4%
• Hispanic	>1%
• Asian	>1%
• Other	>1%
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP Codes	44108
Area code(s)	216
Median income	$21,686
Source: 2000 U.S. Census, City Planning Commission of Cleveland

Glenville is a neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. It is roughly bounded by Rockefeller Park on the west and Lakeview Road on the east, and by the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway on the north and Wade Park Avenue to the south.

History

The Glenville neighborhood was founded in 1870 and was later annexed to the City of Cleveland in 1905. Glenville had been a small village, serving mainly as a resort community to Cleveland's upper-middle class 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 in the 1968 Glenville Shootout. Like much of the violence associated with civil unrest during the Civil Rights movement in other major US cities, as well as in the adjacent Hough neighborhood, racial tensions were a catalyst for an ensuing demographic shift. Today, Glenville is predominantly African-American. While having been for over a half century, one of Cleveland's most visible examples of poverty, crime and urban decay, Glenville has in the early 21st century, gained more positive national media attention, particularly in its high school football team, which has rapidly become one of the better known preparatory programs in Ohio as well as the nation.

Education

Glenville High School and its feeder schools serve the community at large.

Parks

Glenville is bordered on the northwest by Gordon Park (part of the Cleveland Lakefront State Park district) and on the entirety of its immediate western edge by the winding Rockefeller Park. Built on land donated to the city by John D. Rockefeller in 1897, the wooded 276 acres, through which a section of Martin Luther King Drive runs, is known for its historic greenhouse and the Cultural Gardens, and is the largest park located completely within city limits.

Notable people

The following is a list of residents who at one time were raised in Glenville:

• Leon Bibb, WEWS television news anchor
• Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Cleveland-based hip-hop/rap group
• Walter Fovargue, professional golfer and golf course architect
• Benny Friedman, NFL coach and football player
• Abram Garfield, architect and son of US President James Abram Garfield
• Willie Gilbert, playwright
• Ted Ginn Jr., NFL player for Arizona Cardinals
• Steve Harvey, actor and comedian
• Wilson Hirschfeld, journalist
• Jerome Lawrence, playwright
• Hal Lebovitz, sports journalist/editor (most notably for his work in The Plain Dealer)
• Jesse Owens, famed track and field athlete who won four Gold Medals in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.
• Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, creators of the comic book hero Superman
• Troy Smith, 2006 Heisman Trophy Award winner, former quarterback for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and current quarterback of the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League
• Donte Whitner, NFL player for the Cleveland Browns
• Michael R. White, former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
• Pierre Woods, NFL University of Michigan linebacker and player for the New England Patriots
• Cardale Jones (Ohio State) QB Led team to NCAA Football Championship 2015

See also

• Glenville Shootout

External links

• Cleveland City Neighborhood Profile