Abstract
Gail Long recalls her early education which eventually led her to Cleveland’s Near West Side. Long worked as a community organizer at the West Side Community House, where she helped organize community block clubs that dealt with various issues in the neighborhood. She focuses on the affordability and gentrification of the Near West Side along with her involvement in Tremont’s Merrick House. Long recollects various initiatives she was a part of like the efforts to stop the privatization of Metro Health along with the Black Lung Disease Project.
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Interviewee
Long, Gail (interviewee)
Interviewer
White, Bali (interviewer)
Project
Near West Side Housing Activism
Date
8-9-2024
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
76 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Gail Long interview, 09 August 2024" (2024). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 544014.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1337
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