Discrimination in housing
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: 834
Content Description
The Pontchartrain Park Pioneers Oral History Collection encompasses ten digital mp4 video interviews with original residents of the safe haven all-black suburb, Pontchartrain Park in New Orleans, formed during the era of Jim Crow and racial segregation. The second oldest black suburb, built between 1955 and 1961, Pontchartrain Park was envisioned and developed by and for middle and upper-class African Americans who were denied the opportunity of homeownership in historic and new suburban...
Dates:
2019
George Schemer papers
Collection
Identifier: 330
Content Description
Correspondence, bylaws, minutes, lists, newsletters, books, reports, speeches, pamphlets, and clippings. Most correspondence covers Schermer's period as executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Subjects include equal access to housing, Detriot and Philadelphia, fair employment practices, police-community relations, riot and crowd control in the early 1960s Philadelphia, and desegregation of Philadelphia city and neighborhood schools. Also mentioned are the 1940s...
Dates:
Other: 1949-1973
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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George Schemer papers
Preston and Bonita Valien Papers
Collection
Identifier: 371
Scope and Contents
The Preston and Bonita Valien papers are a rich source of documentation generated during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and extremely strong in documenting their ground breaking sociology research in the areas of African American higher education, housing segregation, public school and public transportation integration, population migration from the south to the north, race relations, as well as women’s health related to birth control and infant mortality. The...
Dates:
Created: 1932-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1960; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/1969