About the Author

Marcus Gleisser is retired from the Cleveland Plain Dealer, where he won the National Headliner Award and the Journal Advocate Award. He earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in economics from Western Reserve University and a J.D. from Cleveland Marshall Law School. He still lives in the Cleveland area. Louis Stokes served the Cleveland area in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1999. Retired from Congress, he is senior counsel at Squire, Sanders, and Dempsey in Washington, D.C., and a visiting scholar at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland