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When tenants claimed the city

Gold, Roberta.

When tenants claimed the city the struggle for citizenship in New York housing / [electronic resource] : Roberta Gold. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A time of struggle : holding the line in the 1940s -- The right to lease and occupy a home : equality and public provision in housing development -- So much life : retrenchment in the Cold War -- Out of these ghettos, people who would fight : claiming power in the sixties -- A lot of investment, a lot of roots : defending urban community -- Territorio libre : upheaval in the Vietnam War era -- To plan our own community : government, grassroots, and local development -- A piece of heaven in hell : struggles in the backlash years.

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Landlord and tenant--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Minorities--Social conditions.--New York (State)--New York
Housing--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
Minorities--Housing--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.


Electronic books.

HD7288.72.U52 / N473 2014

333.33/8