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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.