Main entry:

Eisenstadt, Peter R., 1954-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Description:

xi, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Series:

American institutions and society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

This is a history of one of the largest and most ambitiously integrated housing cooperatives during the tumultuous years of racial tension in the 1960s and 1970s. Himself a former resident of Rochdale, the author draws on his personal experiences and interviews with influential residents and personalities involved with the project's implementation as well as primary source documents from the papers of political power-broker Robert Moses and the progressive development corporation the United Housing Foundation, to tell the story of the 6,000 families that attempted to put into practice the ideals of cooperative housing and racial integration and to document the reasons for the experiments eventual failure.

ISBN:

9780801448782 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0801448786 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780801459689 (ebook)

Subject:

Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
Housing, Cooperative New York (State) New York History.
Discrimination in housing New York (State) New York History.
Logement coopératif New York (État) New York Histoire.
Discrimination dans le logement New York (État) New York Histoire.
Discrimination in housing.
Housing, Cooperative.
Rochdale Village (New York, N.Y.) History.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Rochdale Village.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

American institutions and society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269446
Call No.: BIB 201698
Status: Available