Title
Abstract
In this 2012 interview, Fran King, a longtime resident of Shaker Heights, describes her experience in the Ludlow community. Moving from Boston to Cleveland with her husband and her children, Mrs. King remembers the early days of the Ludlow Community Association. Becoming more active in civil rights, she details Ludlow's fight against white flight, and the attraction of Shaker schools for surrounding communities. Throughout her memories, the Van Sweringens are mentioned often. Mrs. King, also the founder of the Shaker Heights Youth Center, remembers how she felt compelled to educate people on the growing drug and alcohol abuse among teenagers. She then founded the Youth Center in 1970 in response to this concern. She ends with describing her favorite locations in Cleveland, and some of the many fundraisers that the Ludlow Community Association sponsored.
Creator
King, Fran (Interviewee)
Creator
Halligan-Taylor, Gabriela (Interviewer)
Project
Shaker Heights Centennial
Date
6-8-2012
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
49 minutes
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
"Fran King, 8 June 2012" (2012). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 915009.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/506