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Grace Kudukis
Further Reading from the
Encyclopedia of Cleveland History:

  • League of Women Voters
  • Lithuanians
  • Presidential debate of 1980

    and from Cleveland Memory:
  • Lithuanian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland, by John F. Cadzow

  • Grace Kudukis
    interviewed by Jeanette E. Tuve,
    May 1, 1986

    as part of the
    Ethnic Women of Cleveland
    Oral History Project

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    This oral history, collected in 1986, provides a look at one of Cleveland's leaders. Grace Kudukis has headed the League of Women Voters and was instrumental in bringing the 1980 Presidential Debates to Cleveland.

    After Lithuania's independence in the early 1990s, she helped CNN and the Peace Corps establish themselves there. Klaipeda, Lithuania and Cleveland, Ohio are sister cities due in part to her efforts.

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    This is one of a series of interviews conducted by Jeanette E. Tuve in 1986 as part of the Ethnic Women of Cleveland Oral History Project at the Cleveland State University. Originally sponsored by the CSU Women's Comprehensive Program and the History Department, and funded by the George Gund Foundation, Cleveland Memory has now digitized these fascinating interview transcripts and recordings to allow you to read the transcripts online while listening to streaming audio recordings of the interviews.

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