Themes: Cedar-Central · Future Outlook League · African Americans and World War II · Heroes and “Race Men” · Jesse Owens Olympic Champion · Joe Louis the “Brown Bomber”· From the Boxing Ring to the Political Arena
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< “F.O.L. Woolworth Strike” Unprocessed Collection Accession 89 - 102 .

John O. Holly and his Future Outlook League held a strike at a local Woolworth’s. The strike was a call for a boycott of businesses in Cleveland that sold products in African-American neighborhoods but did not hire African-American workers. Carl was inspired by John Holly’s work and would eventually go to John Holly as a young adult for political advice and work.