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Negro Gains in Ohio Municipal Posts Highlight NAACP View
NAACP Ohio leader cites a 40 percent rise in Negroes holding municipal jobs since 1960 including elective, appointive, and Civil Service posts under Gov. Rhodes. Strickland credits reapportionment and white migration to suburbs for increased Black representation in Columbus Cleveland Akron and Dayton governments.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio
NAACP
Harold C. Strickland
Strickland
Rhodes
Cleveland
W. O. Walker
Llewellyn A
Jack” Coles
Springfield
Robert C. Henry
Akron
Cincinnati
Dayton
Newark
Icipal
Common Pleas
Toledo
Canton
Columbus
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