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Rochdale Village : Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing / Peter Eisenstadt.
Lippincott Library HD7287.72.U62 N634 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
- Series:
- American institutions and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Discrimination in housing.
- History.
- Housing, Cooperative.
- Rochdale Village (Queens, N.Y.)--History.
- Rochdale Village (Queens, N.Y.).
- Housing, Cooperative--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
- Moses, Robert.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction : when Black and White lived together
- The utopian : Abraham Kazan
- The anti-utopian : Robert Moses
- The birth of a suburb, the growth of a ghetto
- From horses to housing
- Robert Moses and his path to integration
- The fight at the construction site
- Creating community
- Integrated living
- Going to school
- The great fear and the high-crime era
- The 1968 teachers' strike and the implosion of integration
- As integration ebbed
- The trouble with the Teamsters
- Epilogue : looking backward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448782
- 0801448786
- OCLC:
- 611966220
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