"Albert Ballew, pres of Collinwood Improvement assoc., leaving School Bd. Member of his grop [sic] with him."--photo verso. Albert A. Ballew, President of the Collinwood Improvement Association, and members leaving the Cleveland Board of Education confronted by Cleveland public school desegregation picketers. Albert A. Ballew served as president of the Collinwood Improvement Association. The Collinwood Improvement Association was a neighborhood civic group formed to address general problems in the neighborhood. The Collinwood Improvement Association strongly supported neighborhood schools.
