<p>According to Dick Pogue, the Roundtable's efforts to improve relations between labor and management was its greatest success. Using archival cassette tape of Frank Valenta of the United Steelworkers, we ask: how was this related to the Roundtable's goal of inclusion?</p>

According to Dick Pogue, the Roundtable's efforts to improve relations between labor and management was its greatest success. Using archival cassette tape of Frank Valenta of the United Steelworkers, we ask: how was this related to the Roundtable's goal of inclusion?

IV: Race or Labor Relations?

It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. 

The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 

81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 

81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

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It's 1981. Reagan was just inaugurated. Cleveland is emerging from default. We're reeling from manufacturing losses. Racial division abounds. The Greater Cleveland Roundtable, a coalition of CEOs and community leaders, is searching for ways to regain their region's growth and struggling with ways to include folks of color. 81/61 reckons with their effort by exploring the organization's lost document archive and to tell a story about where we have been in the last 40 years and how we might achieve racial equity in the next 40. 81/61 is an original series from the Greater Cleveland Partnership. New episodes are released every two weeks between June 7th and August 16th, 2021. 81/61 is generously supported by the George Gund Foundation.

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