Bibliograph

Rochdale Village, Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing, Peter Eisenstadt

Type

Label

Rochdale Village, Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing, Peter Eisenstadt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rochdale Village

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

611966220

Responsibility statement

Peter Eisenstadt

Series statement

American institutions and society

Sub title

Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing

Table Of 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

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