Rochdale Village : : Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing /

Rochdale Village : : Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing / / Peter Eisenstadt.

From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens, New York. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Eisenstadt, Peter,
MitwirkendeR:
Kazan, Abraham,
Moses, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:American Institutions and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 16 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: When Black and White Lived Together
  • 1. The Utopian
  • 2. The Anti-Utopian
  • 3. The Birth of a Suburb, the Growth of a Ghetto
  • 4. From Horses to Housing
  • 5. Robert Moses and His Path to Integration
  • 6. The Fight at the Construction Site
  • 7. Creating Community
  • 8. Integrated Living
  • 9. Going to School
  • 10. The Great Fear and the High-Crime Era
  • 11. The 1968 Teachers' Strike and the Implosion of Integration
  • 12. As Integration Ebbed
  • 13. The Trouble with the Teamsters
  • Epilogue: Looking Backward
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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