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

Title
Rochdale Village : Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing / Peter Eisenstadt.
Author
Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
Publication
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Description
xi, 323 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Series Statement
American institutions and society.
Uniform Title
American institutions and society.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 10-1557
ISBN
  • 9780801448782 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801448786 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010018406
OCLC
YBP 2010018406
Author
Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
Title
Rochdale Village : Robert Moses, 6,000 families, and New York City's great experiment in integrated housing / Peter Eisenstadt.
Imprint
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Series
American institutions and society.
American institutions and society.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 10-1557
IRH 11-3699
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