There are many issues that minority groups face today in the increasingly industrialized city of Cleveland. Specific issues include The Urban League of Greater Cleveland and their coalition with Rising Tide Initiative, regionalism as source of further discrimination in housing and education, as well as disparities in health care.

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland and Rising Tide Initiative

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland has since its establishment in 1917 worked on behalf of African American and Hispanics as well as other minority groups to improve the housing, economics, education, and health conditions of minority citizens. In coalition with Rising Tide Initiative which services employment readiness and placement programs, The Urban League of Greater Cleveland assists individuals in job searches with underemployed and non-custodial parents.

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Regionalism as a Civil Rights Issue

Regionalism is still a very prevalent issue within Cleveland. As John Powell from the Kirwin Institute for the study of Race and Ethnicity Northeast Ohio indicated, Cleveland is one of the most racially segregated metropolitan areas in the nation and race has been a powerful force in shaping the region. This is directly correlated with other figures such as education and low income levels among minority citizens.

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Disparities in Health Care

According to Dr. Ash Sehgal, Co-Medical Director at the Cleveland Department of Public Health, inequalities in health care access are a continuing problem among the cities confines and are apparent in the preventable illnesses such as obesity, asthma and heart disease most affecting the minority group citizens.

Efforts to create awareness have been launched most notably in the recognition of April as the Minority Health Month.

Black individuals have higher incidences of stroke and infant mortality rate but are less likely to receive the necessary health procedures that are used to diagnose and treat cerebrovascular disease, according to Charles S. Modlin MD at the Urological Institute of Renal Transplantation- The Cleveland Clinic.

Information gathered from:

Dr. Ash Sehgal

Charles S. Modlin MD

John Powell

Cleveland Department of Public Health

Images gathered from:

The Urban League of Greater Cleveland

Created for Political Science 350: Group and Minority Politics
at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Taught by: Professor Freitag
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Erin Butler, Eric Duwe, Brent Falkner, Sarah Graves