[6] Prominent local families, such as the Severances and the Boltons, lived in Hough at this time, rivaling Millionaire's Row on Euclid Avenue.

[6] Hough then lost prominent institutions within the community, including University School and League Park, the latter of which being the original home of the Cleveland Indians.

[4] This was exacerbated by other city planning projects aimed with clearing blight, including freeway construction through communities like Central and Downtown Cleveland.

[6] The Hough Area Development Corporation (HADC) was founded by civil rights activist Reverend Deforest Brown in the wake of the 1966 uprising, using Cleveland: NOW!

[15] Although the franchises bought by the HADC failed to make enough money by the mid-1970s, the effort was highly influential on inner-city McDonald's and black ownership in said communities.

[15] Stokes additionally worked with another black nationalist group called Cleveland Pride in 1968 to plant sod as a symbolic means of making the neighborhood more attractive and hospitable.

[16] This includes the 2014 preservation of League Park, a $6.3 million effort that renovated the original diamond into an AstroTurf field and turned its ticket office into a Baseball Heritage Museum.