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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
J S Fuerst; D Bradford Hunt |
| ISBN: | 0275974979 9780275974978 |
| OCLC Number: | 51172257 |
| Description: | xvi, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Foreword / by John Hope Franklin. -- The vision and its implementer: the staff of the CHA. Oscar C. Brown, Sr., John Ducey, Ed Holmgren, Ruth Sable, Emil Hirsch, Tom McDade, Ted Greenhalgh, Winston Kennedy, Daisy Brumfield, Muriel Chadwick, Patricia McArthur Harris, Beverly Shepherd, Phyllis Offord. -- Laboratories for leadership. Cordell Reed, Bennie L. Crane, Bertrand Ellis, Leon Hamilton, Andrew Greenlee, Jerry Butler, Melvin Wilson, Joseph Berrios, Nelvia Brady, James Fletcher, Wilson Frost. -- Gateway to the American dream. Erman and Dorothy Sing, Edgar Johnson, John Wilson, Acey Harris, Margaret Austin, Charlotte Young Moore, Troy L. Yates, Jr., Henry and Elouise Messiah. -- Reflections on integration, segregation, and choice. Sidney and Bernice Bild, Gwendolyn Duncan Alexander, Stephen Pugh, Andrew Thompson, Philip and Jeffrey Roberts, William Shaw, Adolph Slaughter, Angela Willuweit, Deborah Gilliam Mayes, David Doran. -- Investments in the mind: the importance of education. Eugene Farmer, Rita Lewis Perry, Winifred DeLoache, Abdul Alkalimat, Maude Davis, Mary Robinson, Ananias Samuel, Jr., Vonsell Ashford, Joe Thompson, Hortense Irwin Bright. -- The building of character: religion, sports, and music. Claude and Addie Wyatt, Alvin Lewis, Everett Jackson, Roscoe King, Bill "Butterball" Crane, Walter Blocker, Ramsey Lewis, Barbara Jones Slater and Leon Jones, Alyce Holden and Loretta Martin, Richard Townsell, Arnold Weddington, Sam Medenhall. -- And the band played on and on... and then off key: residents who stayed in CHA. Hattie Calvin, Hallie Amey, Helen Preston, Margaret Wilson, Rosita Henry, Edna McNeal, Hazel Johnson, Myrtle Morrison. -- Conclusion: The rebirth of public housing. Design and size ; Race and location ; Community building, religion, and sports ; Quality of staff and regulations ; Tenant selection ; The real solution: a return to the policies of yesterday. |
| Other Titles: | Building community in Chicago |
| Responsibility: | [compiled and edited by] J.S. Fuerst ; with the assistance of D. Bradford Hunt. |
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