Interview with Clover Elliott | Hough Uprising

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Elliott took the civil service exam, and ended up at the Ohio Department of Labor where she worked for 30 years in their employment service division. After the uprisings in Hough and Glenville (most commonly known as the Hough Riots), she was tasked with finding employment opportunities for the men and women in Hough and adopted a Black Nationalist nickname during her tenure there. In this interview, she discusses her upbringing, her experiences in Hough, recounts stories of domestic workers who cleaned housing for white families in affluent suburbs, and how she started her own company, Careers Now, where she has worked with hundreds of unemployed workers and ex-convicts to find gainful employment.
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Clover: the saying is: “Money talks and bullshit walks!”

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You should talk to Sam Tidmore at our health club. He is a little younger than you but also has a lot of great stories of being black and going to college and having a white room mate who wouldn’t live with him. He actually got his own room his first year in college because the other guy left! It’s too bad that you didn’t do that with nursing school. They should have made that other woman not go if she wouldn’t share a room with you.