Identifier	glenville045
Title	Looter tries on shoes
Subject	Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) Glenville Shootout Riots & demonstrations Cleveland Police Department Black militant groups Radicalism Looters
Description	"Cleveland, O.: Holding several pair of shoes one of the boys tries a fitting while waiting for traffic to pass. The boys were in an area where National Guardsmen were called back into to quell firebombing and looting, UPI."-- photo front. The events surrounding the Glenville Shootout occurred from July 23, 1968 to July 28, 1968 in Cleveland's Glenville neighborhood. Beginning as a gunfire exchange between Cleveland Police officers and radical militant group leader Fred (Ahmed Evans), the shooting erupted into an all out riot as angry crowds gathered resulting in further gunfire leaving seven dead and fifteen wounded. Over the next several days tensions grew as rioting, looting and arson prevailed. The National Guard was called in and by July 28th. order was restored. Fred Evans was later tried and found guilty of murder, sentenced to life in prison.
Creator	United Press International
Location Depicted	Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio)
Time Period	Decline and Comeback: 1960-1990
Date Original	1968
Object Type	black-and-white photographs
Size of Original	8 x 10 in.
Digital Collection	Legal Landmarks in Cleveland History
Collection Homepage	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/press/
Donor	Cole, Joseph E.
Copyright	http://www.clevelandmemory.org/copyright/
Format	jpeg
Language	English
Repository	Cleveland State University. Michael Schwartz Library. Special Collections.
Repository Collection	Cleveland Press (PH2000.000PRE)
Repository Homepage	http://library.csuohio.edu/speccoll/index.html
Digital Publisher	Cleveland Memory Project
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History Entry	http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=GS1
Further Reading	http://scholar.csuohio.edu/record=b1279523~S0

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