The Cuyahoga River fire has become a symbol of water pollution and the environmental movement. The Cuyahoga River, a historic waterway that meanders 100 miles from its headwaters to where it merges with Lake Erie, is a tale of two rivers.A development battle exposes the racial divide in Cuyahoga Falls where today's ally is tomorrow's enemy. Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement. Attempt at running for mayor, having lost in nineteen sixty five. In the surface fill. "The single most important insight of social movement research over the past 40 years is that movements don't come out of nowhere," Polletta said. When Does Water Burn?!? 21, as we were searching for a movement to champion as part of the project we call A Greater Cleveland. Illustrations provided represent and support concepts in the text.