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table of contents
  1. Preface
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: A Reckoning of Childhood, Race, and Neoliberalism
  4. 1. Knowledge, Girl, Nature: Fresh Air Tensions prior to World War II
  5. 2. Church, Concrete, Pond: How Innocence Got Disrupted
  6. 3. Grass, Color, Sass: How the Children Shaped Fresh Air
  7. 4. Sex, Seven, Sick: How Adults Kept the Children in Check
  8. 5. Milk, Money, Power: How Fresh Air Sold Its Programs
  9. 6. Greeting, Gone, Good: Racialized Reunion and Rejection in Fresh Air
  10. Epilogue: Changing an Innocence Formula
  11. Appendix 1. Fresh Air Organizations
  12. Appendix 2. Documented Fresh Air Hosting Towns, 1939–1979
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliographic Note
  15. Index

Index

abuse, 15; sexual, 41, 90, 96, 148

Adams, Glenda, 106

adolescence and adolescents, 9, 92, 98–99, 105

adoption, 153; opposition to, 1; rarity of, 42, 104

African American children, 7, 19–22, 66–69, 71–76; activists as, 89, 179n16; age caps and, 98–99, 150, 156; isolation of, 81; manners of, 83, 86; nature and, 63; poverty and, 25, 125; publicity about, 59; race relations and, 9; racial code of conduct, 90; racism toward, 52–53, 65, 152; respectability and, 77; shift to serving, 139, 149; intimacy with, 93–94; teachers as, 82

African Methodist Episcopal Church, 19

age caps, 24, 98–99, 102–3, 106, 110, 144, 214n58

Allaben, NY, 72

Altoona, PA, 132, 151

amalgamation. See interracial romance

American Stock Exchange, 137

Americus, GA, 156

Ames, IA, 98

Amish people, 34, 36, 38–41, 56

Ammann, Jakob, 39

Amsterdam News, 17, 19, 48, 66, 69, 74

Anabaptists, 39–41. See also Mennonites

Annville, PA, 129

Anthony, Veronica, 94, 151

Anti-Defamation League, 74

Antioch Baptist Church, 73

Arenas, Savina, 47

Ashe, Arthur, 137

Asian Americans, 67; children, 20, 65, 66, 76

Athens, OH, 81

Atlanta, GA, 156

Atwater, David Fisher, 72

Atwater, Mary, 72

Bacall, Lauren, 137

Bailey, Lauren “Flip,” 50, 71, 81

Baltimore, MD, 2, 21, 25, 64, 69

Barbel, Kay, 126

Barrows v. Jackson, 60

Batts, Janice, 11, 145–50, 152, 155, 158

Beame, Abraham, 123

Belafonte, Harry, 73, 137

Bell Harbor, NY, 102

beloved community, 12, 155

Bennington, VT, 1, 69, 105, 129

Bennington Banner, 122

Bethel College, 105

Bethune, Mary McCleod, 81

black freedom struggle. See civil rights movement

Black Nationalists, 56, 82, 83, 88, 128

Black Power, 46, 48, 66, 155

Boll, Edith, viii, ix

Boll, John viii, ix

Bonilla, George, 52

Borden industry, 113

Boston, MA, 18, 36, 38, 43, 62, 93, 99

Boys Athletic League, 133

Boys Club, 133

Boy Scouts, 17, 61

Brace, Charles Loring, 15

Brethren, Church of, 39

Brookfield, MA, 72

Brooklyn Urban League, 24

Brown, Natasha, 41

Brown v. Board of Education, 68, 93

Buckley, William, 138

Buckwalter, Anna, 125

busing, 1, 6, 46, 93

Cabrini-Green Housing Project, 45

Califon, NJ, 142–43, 145

Calvin College, 106

Cambridge, MA, 69

Camp Atwater, 72–73

Camp Bryton Rock, 72–73

Camp Fire Girls, 16–17

Camp Hidden Valley, 51, 104

Camp Pioneer, 71, 88

camps, 5, 16–17, 103, 113; abuse at, 96; age caps for, 99; autonomy of children, 51; black, 71–73; boys at, 24; communists and, 32; disciplinary issues, 86–89, 98; fundraising for, 104; gender and, 25; home visits vs., 179n10; Progressive Era and, 18; race and, 25, 204–5n125; segregation of, 19, 102; scholarship about, 182n32; swimming at, 52; white, 74; wilderness and, 24, 30, 103, 154

Camp Wallkill, 19

Cantella, Lisa, 71

Carlton, Peter F., 48

Carnegie, Andrew, 27

Catholic Charities, 36

celebrities, 11, 36, 131, 137–38, 140

charity, ix–x, 17, 36–37, 111, 124

Charity Organization Society, 16, 26

Chayefsky, Paddy, 137

Chicago, IL, 16–19, 36–39, 43–49, 67–69, 192n83

Chicago Defender, 20

childhood, 156–57, 188n1; adulthood and, 92; health and, 29–30; innocence and, 6, 8, 30, 35; legislation of, 20–21; memory of, 233n5; recapitulation theory of, 24; reformers and, 23; religion and, 37; scholarship about, 180n17; sex and, 99; wonder, 8

child labor, 20, 29, 35

children: agency of, 14, 31, 51, 181–82n31; family as, 103; physical intimacy with, 93–94; placing out, 15; naïveté of, 13–15, 20–25, 31–32, 46, 56, 64, 151, 157; teachers as, 80–83; theft and, 79–80, 88; wonder of, 22, 31, 56, 115, 119, 139, 151

Children’s Age Society, 15–16, 19, 22, 25, 28

Chinn, Philip, 83

Christian Herald, 16–17

Christian Recorder, 19

Christian Reformed Church, 4, 38, 82, 87, 105

cities, 36, 42–49, 90; cows and, 119; disease in, 108; donors from, 27; drugs and, 64; harm of, 17, 25–30; homesick for, 58–59; knowledge of, 15, 20–22, 38, 47, 114, 118; lack of democracy, 133; parks in, 62; racial rebellions in, 9, 67, 69; recreation in, 22; redemption by, 10, 56–57; urbanization and, 154; urban renewal in, 44

citizenship, 131, 133–34

City Missionary Society, 5

civil rights movement, 6–7, 12, 65, 80, 151–56; children as activists in, 89; Freedom Struggle as, 57, 59, 155–56; massive resistance to, 93; scholarship about, 179–80n16

Clark, Shubael, 129

class, 14, 23, 45, 49, 53–55, 129, 153; fundraising and, 125; gift-giving and, 128; poverty and, 4, 27, 36, 89, 125–27, 130–31, 140; romance across, 95; vacations and, 118; wealth and, 27, 110, 118, 130, 138

Clearfield, PA, 99

Clement of Alexandria, 34–35

Cleveland, OH, 1, 37, 43, 69–73, 81, 108–9, 121–22

Cleveland Post, 140

clothing, 41, 77–78, 130, 139

Cobb, Hilton, Jr., 79

Coburn, Rena L., 134

Cold War, ix, 133–34, 140, 153–54

Coleman, J. Walter, Mrs., 134

Colon, Pauline, 128

communists, 32, 66; anti-communists, 134–35

Community Renewal Society, 65

Conklin, Charles R., Dr., 28

Connecticut, 63, 81, 122

Cooley, Anne, 142–45, 149

Cooley, Bradley, 142, 144, 149

Cooley, David, 142, 144, 149

Cooley, Roger, 142–43, 145, 149

Cooley, Timothy, 142–44, 149

Cooper, Dale, Mrs., 100

Cooper, Etsy, 137

Cornell University, 115

Correa, Orlando, 115

countryside, 10, 140, 161; bugs in, 63; cows in, 29, 111, 113, 115; desire for, 22; disease and, 28; grass and, 59–62; health in, 29, 108; innocence and, 13, 32; nature and, 25–30; relocation to, 129; safety from war in, 132

Country Week Association of Philadelphia, 15

Country Week of Boston, 15

Cousins, Norman, 137–38

cows, 29, 54, 61, 111–19, 139–40, 219n16

Crandell, Richard, 61, 150–52, 156

Crawford, Guilford, A., 19

Crawford, Joan, 137

criticism of Fresh Air programs, 5–12, 137, 140, 226n164; damage by, 1, 82, 110, 129–30; urban stereotypes and, 46–47; racial limits of, 65–66

Croton-on-Hudson, NY, 46

Croydon, NH, 134

Cruz, Alexander, 50

Cuervo, Felix J., 134–35

Curry, Peggy, 106

Daily Worker, 32

David, Thomas, 88

DeBerry, William, 72

Delmonte, Ellen, 2, 140

democracy, 131–35, 153

Denlinger, Emmas, 39

desegregation. See racial integration

Des Moines, IA, 36, 43, 99

Detroit, MI, 67

Dewey, Thomas E., 85, 136

Diaz, Luis, 11, 87–88, 95, 105, 142–45, 149, 152, 158

Diaz, Nilson, 105, 144

Disney, Walt, 139

Dominicans, 97

Donhaven Country Club, 71

donors, 27, 32–33, 104, 120–21, 124, 221n60

Dorsey, Bernadette, 70

Douglas, Mary, 154

drugs, 43, 46, 64, 85, 145

DuBois, W. E. B., 81

Dwinell, Ralph B., 68

Dwyer, Jonathan, 69

Eastern Mennonite Missions, vii

East Harlem Protestant Parish, 36

Echo Hill Farm, 129

Ecumenical Metropolitan Ministry, 4

Elk Grove, IL, 47

Elks Club, 120

Ellington, Duke, 137

Ephrata, PA, 159

Episcopal Diocese of New York, 5, 54, 85, 88

Episcopalians, 36–38, 62, 82, 132

Fair Labor Standards Act, 20

Fearon, Bryant, 111–12, 114–22, 126, 129, 140

Federal Aid Highway Act, 44

Federal Housing Administration, 60

Fire Island, NY, 121

Fishkill, NY, 51, 129

Flagg, James Montgomery, 13–14, 28, 32

Flood, Jeane, 160

Florence, SC, 18

Flowers, Thomas, 78

food, 29, 107–8, 113, 135; hunger and, 43

Forbes, 59, 64

Fortune, T. Thomas, 19

Freedoms Foundation, 134

Freeman, 19

Friedens, PA, 102

Fresh Air Chorus, 122, 138

Fresh Air movement: oral history of, 233n5; scholarship about, 181n30

Fresh Air Society, Baltimore, 25

Freud, Sigmund, 92–93

Friendly Town Program, vii, 5, 16, 94, 151; abuse in, 94; Cleveland version, 1, 122; police and, 136; racism in, 59, 75

fundraising, 27, 32, 74, 103, 119–21, 131; galas, 123–24; media and, 123; poverty and, 125–27; sports and, 122

Garden City, NY, 47

gender, 9–10, 13–14, 95–98, 157; boys, 14, 23–24, 94, 157; femininity, 15, 56; girls, 13–14, 23–25, 32, 58, 94; masculinity, 24; selection of, 97–98, 103; sophistication in, 102, 106, 157

Germantown, PA, 39

Gettysburg, PA, 134

Gibson, Frederick, 85

Gibson, Karen, 102

gift-giving, 127–28

Gilded Age, 14, 18, 20

Gingerich, Earl, 146

Glad Tidings Mennonite Church, 36

Goodman, Benny, 137

Gorme, Eydie, 137

Graafschap, MI, 52

Grand Rapids, MI, 106

grass, 59–64, 90, 135, 157–62; lawns and, 57, 60; marijuana as, 59, 64; metonym for country and nature, 26, 60–61; parks and, 62; romanticism of, 21, 25, 30, 59, 61; unseen by children, 61

Great Depression, 17, 36, 124

Great Migrations, 4, 18, 67, 160

Green Book, 72

Gulfport, MS, 18, 39, 78, 81, 87–88, 105, 117, 192n83

Guthrie County, IA, 121

Hagerstown, MD, 123

hair, 31, 41, 147; care of, 81; racism about, 148; stereotypes about, 118

Hall, Stanley G., 24

Hammerstein, Oscar, 137

handicapped children, 51, 104, 106

Harlem’s Children Center, 22

Harlem Children’s Fresh Air Fund, 17, 19, 71, 123

Harmon, Larry, 139

Harrisburg, PA, 65

Harrisonburg, PA, 40, 106, 126

health, 11, 108–9; country and, 28–29; disease and, 26–28, 108–9; free care, 108; malnutrition and, vii, 6, 43; nature and, 25–27; sickness, 106; tuberculosis cures, 107, 109; weight gain, 21, 107

Henry, Donald, 55

Henry Street Settlement House, 44, 129

Hepburn, Katherine, 95

Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund: abuse in, 96; archives closed, 160–62, 234n6; assets of, 125; celebrities in, 137; class, 124; founding organization, 5, 15; fundraising and, 121–24, 126; milk and, 113, 116; military and, 134; numbers served, 16; publicity by, 122–23; racial integration in, 68–69, 74; racial segregation in, 19; racism in, 75; size shrinking, 143; studies of, 178n3; swimming instruction, 52

Hesston, KS, 117

High Aim Program, 148

Hill, Geraldine, 104

Hinesburg, VT, 111–12, 114, 129

Hinkle, Donald, Mr. and Mrs., 70

Hinkle, Melanie, 70

Hinton, James, 45

Hoff, Philip H. 136

homesickness, 42, 46, 56, 87, 101–2, 192n76

home stays and visits, 16, 21, 68, 77, 98, 103, 179n10

homosexuality, 96

Hopewell, Carol, 129

Horst, Barbara, 159, 161

hosts, African American, 69, 71

Hotel Astor, 123

Housing Act (1949), 44

Howard Beach, NY, 121

Howatt, Shelby, 43

Hudson Guild, 75, 76, 82

Hull House, 21

Huntingdon, PA, 102

Hutterites, 39

Hynd-Lindsay, Alexander, 13–14

Illinois, 147

Indiana, 148

industrialization, 8, 62

influenza outbreak, 16

Inner City Protestant, Parish, 1–2

innocence, 14–15, 30–37, 56–58, 151–58; age caps and, 2, 106; childhood and, 6–7, 30; marketing of, 139–41; Mennonites and Amish and, 40; nature and, 8; power and, 109–10; purity and, 25, 29–30, 32, 40, 57, 154; race and, 9, 11, 66, 150–52; rhetoric of, 151–52; scholarship about, 233n52; sex and, 8, 92; Steele, Shelby and, 152–53

interracial romance, 91–97, 148–50, 180–81n24

Iowa Mennonite School, 149

Jamestown, RI, 107

Jaycees, 120

Jefferson, Johnny, 117

Jefferson Park Pool, 50

Jessen, Sorn, 232n44

Jewish people, 33, 37, 75

Johnson, Lyndon B., 36, 55, 136

Johnson, William, 19

Joyner, Margaret, 141

juvenile delinquency, 29, 35, 55, 84–88

Kalona, IA, 147–48

Kansas, 39, 87, 122, 127, 147, 192

Kansas City, KS, 69

Kelley, Florence, 21

Kerner, Otto, 55

Kerner Commission, 67

King, Barbara, 47

King, Herbert “Herbie,” 114, 119

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 7, 9, 155–56

Kingston, NY, 136

Kirton, George, 74

Kirton, Marian, 74

Kishacoquillas Valley, 91, 95, 97

kissing case, 93

Kiwanis Club, 4, 36, 120

Koinonia Farms, 156

Kramer, Stanley, 95

Kraybill, Paul N., 107–9

labor unions, 120

Lancaster, PA, ix, 39, 41, 159–61

Lancaster Mennonite Conference, vii

La Raza movement, 82

Larson, Kathy Knoll, 52

Latina women, 94

Latino children, 20, 57, 68, 71, 118, 160; activists as, 89; age caps and, 99, 150–56; class and, 82, 125; intimacy and, 93–94; manners of, 83; nature and, 63; publicity about, 59; racism toward, 65; restrictive covenants about, 60; shift to serving, 66, 75, 139, 149

Latino men, 94

lawns. See grass

Lawrence, Steve, 137

Lewis, Frederick, 56, 65, 107–9, 118, 134–35, 139; discipline and, 88; effects of Fresh Air and, 47–48; handicapped children and, 104; juvenile delinquency and, 85; poverty and, 125

Lindsay, John V., 136

Linville, VA, 100

Lions Club, 36

Little Rock, Arkansas, 49

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 61

Long Island, NY, 80, 121

Los Angeles, CA, 43–67, 69

Lutherans, 34, 36

Madison Square Garden, 122, 138

manners, 2, 7, 10, 56, 74, 77–78; discipline and, 87–89, 160; disruptive behavior and, 35, 40, 57–58, 86, 160; misbehavior and, 32, 37, 40, 56–57, 83, 86–89; politeness and, 2, 80, 86; sass and, 31, 57–59, 83, 90

Manzella, Frank A., 108

marijuana, 59, 64, 90

Martha’s Vineyard, 73, 135

Martin, Mary, 137

Maxwell, Robert, 139

Mayes, Roosevelt “Teddy,” 49, 50, 55

Mays, Willie, 137

McHugh, Lillybelle, 72–73

McHugh, Reginald, 72–73

McKenna, Gerard, 120

medical examinations, 28, 37, 107, 109

Mennonites, x, 34–41, 56, 68, 85, 87, 145–49, 192n83

Mennonite Community Chapel, 145

Mennonite House, 156

Methodists, 36

Merman, Ethel, 137

Michener, James A., 137

Michigan, 39, 76, 81–82, 87, 116, 192n83

Mickolic, Laurence “Larry,” 88, 97–98, 102

Middleton, Margie, 40–41, 46, 128

Midwest, 18, 50, 65–69, 90, 93, 138, 145, 153

military, 6, 11, 46, 65, 131, 136; Air Force, 135; Army, 133; Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund and, 134; Marines, 144, 146; Navy, 135

milk, 29, 111–16, 119, 139–41; lactose intolerance and, 291n14

Miller, Kevin, 51

Millett, Ruth, 151

Minnesota, MN, 43, 101

Mission/Missionary Society, 90, 103

Mississippi, 82

Mojica, Danford, 111–22, 126, 129, 140

Montana, 69

Montlawn Summer Home, 16–17

mothers of Fresh Air children, 74

Moundridge, KS, 81

Mount Joy, PA, 39

Mount Union, PA, 126

Mount Zion Congregational Church, 121

Murray, James, 105

Myrdal, Gunnar, 67

NAACP, 82

National Association of Black Social Workers, 1

National Black Political Convention, 49

National Council of Churches, 66

National Playground Association, 16

National Social Workers Committee on Camping, 75

Native New Yorkers Association, 134

nature, 2, 4, 8–15, 24–26, 30–32, 58–64, 154, 157; bugs in, 63–64, 161; cows and, 119; wilderness in, 24, 30, 103, 154

neoliberalism, x, 141

Newark, NJ, 69

New Era, 159

New Jersey, 76, 87, 118

Newkirk, Oscar V., 136

newspapers, 4, 13, 120, 131; African American, 19–20; publicity in, 122; sources in, 160. See also individual titles

Newton, KS, 9, 105, 117

New York, 69, 71, 87, 99, 105

New York City, 101, 105, 128–29, 151; Bronx, 45, 48, 50, 126; Brooklyn, 45–46, 50, 53, 58, 74, 79, 83, 99, 121; children from, ix, 15, 63, 135–36, 142–45, 159, 161; fundraising in, 120; Harlem, 40, 47, 50–51, 66, 72, 81, 96; inner-city issues, 102; Manhattan, 1, 47–48, 58, 83; programs in, 17–18; program origin, vii; Queens, 45, 95; recessions in, 124; suburbs of, 44; summer programming in, 48; symbol of danger, 42; travel from, 114

New York Globe, 19

New York Stock Exchange, 137

New York Times, 16, 61, 122, 161

Nixon, Richard, 136

noble savage, 154, 232n44

North, 68, 77, 93, 138

North Carolina, 138

North Dakota, 69

Northeast, 18, 50, 65, 69, 90, 138, 153

Northwest, 138

Noyes, Blanke, 69, 124

Nungesser Chateau, 71

Office of Economic Opportunity, 48

O’Hagan, Anne, 107

O’Keefe, Carolyn, 99

Olean, NY, 36

Oneonta, NY, 37, 127

Optimist Club, 120

orphan trains, 15, 19

Otego, NY, 95

Palmgren, Tom, 88

Paradise, PA, 39

parents of Fresh Air children, vii, 51, 109–10; care for children, 42, 140; cooperation of, 141; finances of, 72; involvement of, 12, 14, 46, 28, 121–22, 157; respectability of, 41, 77–80, 86, 89, 130; separating children from, 101; stereotypes about, 125, 140

parks, 26, 59, 62

Parsons, Willard, 15–16, 23, 27–31, 35, 66, 89, 122

patriotism, 131–35

Pearl, MS, 71

Pearl Harbor attack, 132

Pearson, C. Arthur, 17

Penn Laird, VA, 70

Penn Station, 42, 47

Pennsylvania, 40, 51, 68–69, 81, 91, 99, 106

Pennsylvania Lifers Association, 120

Perdeux Health Farm, 71

Peters Sisters, 137

Phifer, Lawrence, 53

Philadelphia, PA, 19, 43

Phillips, Edward, 101

Phillips, Michael, 178n3

Pittsburgh, PA, 19, 67

Pittsburgh Courier, 73

Pittsfield, MA, 63, 128, 132

Pittstown, NJ, 114

Plattsburgh, NY, 76

playgrounds, 26, 48

Poitier, Sidney, 95

police, 67, 93; children becoming, 150; distrust of, 55, 79–80, 96, 136; involvement with Fresh Air, 23, 85, 131, 136

polio, 16

Polio Parents Club, 104

politics and politicians, 11, 36, 131, 136, 138, 140

Port Royal, VA, 116

Powell, John, 83

Presbyterians, 15, 35, 36

Pro Brush, 12

Progressive Era, 14–21, 25–29, 35, 62, 66, 122, 139

Pruitt-Igoe Housing project, 45

psychologists, 21, 24

publicity, x, 27–28, 64, 71, 135, 153, 157; age caps and, 99; camps and, 75, 104; celebrities and, 123; churches and, 36; Herald Tribune in, 15, 122; nature stereotypes in, 54; racialized reunion in, 11, 81, 93–94, 150; reach of, 139; sophistication of, 111, 115; urban stereotypes in, 43

Puerto Rican people, 67, 97, 118, 144, 149; children, 68–69, 114

Pulling, Lisa, 40, 54, 85

Puzo, Mario, 61

race, 80; Herald Tribune and, 161; intimacy in programs and, 90, 94; lawns and, 57; nature and, 63; program purpose and, 69; selection of children by, 38, 68, 71, 94, 97; swimming and, 50; transition to children of color, 75

race relations, 10, 59, 65, 69, 84, 118, 204–5n125

racial ambassadors, 81, 89

racial bridge builders, 89

racial code of conduct, 10, 58, 80, 90

racial conflict, 6, 52–53

racial demographics, 6, 67, 73, 120, 139, 151, 160

racial discrimination, 55

racial harassment, 52, 53, 57, 145

racial identity development, 77

racial integration, 6–8, 12, 20, 65–71, 118, 136; Brown v. Board of Education and, 68; camps and, 67, 74–75; children and, 83; programs and, 156; schools of, 71, 93

racialized rejection, 11, 149–50, 152, 158

racialized reunion, 11, 149–50, 152–53, 158

racial prejudice, 71, 75–76, 80–81, 89–90, 140, 155

racial rebellions, 9, 67, 69, 74

racial segregation, 11, 19–20, 49, 52–53, 65, 76, 88; camps and, 75; programs in, 69, 118, 156; schools and, 93

racial stereotypes, 50, 77, 115, 118

racism, 7–8, 65–67, 83, 150, 159, 162; An American Dilemma and, 67; camps and, 75; children teaching about, 90, 157; civil rights movement response to, 81; exoticism and, 76; Friendly Towns in, 59, 66, 76–77, 82, 155; individual vs. institutional, 178n5; innocence and, 151–52; swimming and, 52; victimization and, 152; YWCA and, 160

Radical Reformation, 34–39

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 36

Reader’s Digest, 87

recapitulation theory, 24

Red Cross, 120

Regenbogen, Helen, 45

Reid, Helen Rogers, 161

Reid, Whitelaw, 124

re-invitations, 23, 88, 91–92, 99, 101, 105

religion, 4, 10, 18, 24, 41, 56–57, 71, 96; Christians, 13, 14, 37; child evangelism, 4; churches, 10, 17, 33–37, 86; clergy of, 36, 38; faith of camp counselors, 189n18; sex, 93; social gospel, 36; Sunday School, 35, 37–38; synagogues, 34; theology, 34–35

respectability, 77–78, 83, 86, 89, 93, 151; behavior, 31, 58, 83; clothing, 127, 130

restrictive covenants, 60, 67

Richmond, VA, 62

Riis, Jacob, 25, 27

Rivera, Carlos, 45

Roberts, Ginger, 137

Roberts, Nicol, 48

Rockefeller, Nelson A., 62, 136

Rogers, Richard, 137

Rolling Meadows, IL, 101

Roman Catholics, 36, 38–39, 142

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 136

Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr., 116–17

Rosa, Elba, 129

Rotary Club, 4, 24, 36, 120

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 34–35

rumor network: adults using, 88; children using, 5, 80

rural communities, 25–27, 29–30, 36, 129, 133. See also countryside

Saint Augustine, 34

Saint John’s Camp, 72

Saint Louis, MO, 45

Salisbury, MD, 42

Salvation Army, 16, 30, 114, 120

Sandusky, Rosemary, 47

San Francisco, CA, 35, 67

Saporato, Peggy, 38

Sawyer, W. C. “Tom,” 134

Schenectady, NY, 45

Schleiermacher, Friederich, 35

Schofield, Jaquelyn, 45

Seattle, WA, 4, 18, 68–69

settlement houses, vii, 4, 22, 47, 74, 129, 160

sex, 2, 8–9, 12–14, 30, 38, 148; education about, 92–93; girls’ interest in, 98; innocence and, 157; interracial, 8, 11, 93, 97; liberation of, 93; masturbation, 92, 96; repression of, 93

sexually transmitted diseases, 11, 28, 107–10

Sharpe Reservation, 51, 73, 83, 104, 115, 151

Shea Stadium, 123

Shelley v. Kraemer (1948), 60

Shriver, Sargent, 136

Simons, Menno, 39

Son, David, 42

Sons of Daniel Boone, 17

South, 2, 18–19, 38, 40, 66–68, 77, 90–93, 138

South Dakota, 39, 87, 192n83

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 126, 155

Southwest, 138

Spangler, Gertrude M., 39

Stanley, Johnnie, 127

Steele, Shelby, 152–57

stock market crash, 16

Strawn, Mary Ann, 101

Stucky, Doris Zerger, 78

Stucky, Mark, 78

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 6

suburbs, 44–49, 57, 60; white people in, 9, 12, 46, 50, 71, 77, 80–81, 91

Suffolk, NJ, 62

summer: city activities during, 47–48; heat of, 29–30; swimming during, 50–57

Summer Outing Program, 16

Sunday, Billy, 107

swimming, 10, 33–34, 49–57, 65, 83, 88, 134, 145; African American, 49–50, 52–53; drowning and, 49–52, 57; Latino, 50, 53; pools, 33, 49–57

Syracuse, NY, 79

Taylor, Deborah Jean, 128

Taylor, Frederick W., 21

Thiede, Judith, 62

Thomas, Jolene, 91

Thomas, Macy, 91, 95, 97

Toledo, OH, 43

Tracey, Spencer, 95

transportation, 18, 36, 46, 101, 107–8, 114, 159

Trissel, Alice, 40, 126

Troy, NY, 45

True Life Lutheran Chinese Church, 36

Truth, Sojourner, 73

tuberculosis, 107, 109

Tyson, Cicely, 73

Union Settlement Association, 4, 48, 74

Union Theological Seminary, 35

United Neighborhood Houses of New York, 75

United Way: fundraising through, 122; Minneapolis of, 101

Urban League, 24, 65

urban areas. See cities

vacations: Christmas, 5; educational value of, 115; Fresh Air origins, 15; stale air, 1, 83; swimming and, 50; work and, 50, 117–18

Vanderbilt family, 27

Vanderkodde, Cindy, 82, 105–6, 150

Vandervelde, Helen, 106

Vandervelde, Roger, 106

Vasquez, Orlando, 129

Vaughn, J. B., 111–12

Vaughn, Roger, 112

Vermont, 61, 69, 96, 136, 137

vetting: children of, 22–23, 31, 58, 84–86, 96; hosts of, 96; medical, 11, 91, 107, 109; religious, 38

Vietnam War, 84

Vitolo, Albert, 136

Volunteers of America, 16

Walker, Tangiere, 100

War on Poverty, 36, 136

Warrendale Camp, 67

Washington, D.C., 69

Watkins, Tammy, 137

weight gain. See health: weight gain

Westbury, NY, 126

West Chester, IA, 146

Westchester, NY, 104, 136

West Coast, 18, 69, 90, 153

Wheaton (IL) Human Relations Council, 83

white flight, 4, 49, 128, 160

white liberals, 46, 82, 153

white people, 24, 68, 71, 82, 86; boys, 25; children, 22, 66–69, 75, 77, 80, 83, 89, 90, 118, 178; hosts, 68–69, 89, 91; European ethnics, 4, 9, 25, 139; girls, 25; men, 94; women, 94

white superiority, 118

Whitney, John Hay, 124

Wicomico, MD, 101

Winchester, MD, 52

Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 120

Woodcraft Indians, 17

Woodson, Carter G., 81

Wordsworth, William, 8

World War I, 4, 18, 21

World War II, 5, 15–16, 66, 113, 131–35

Yankee Stadium, 122, 138

YMCA, 66–67

Yorktown Heights, NY, 129

YWCA, 160

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