Selected Bibliography
Archival Collections
Columbia University
Oral History Collection, Reminiscences of Abraham E. Kazan
Cornell University, Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
United Housing Foundation Collection
Municipal Archives, New York City
Robert F. Wagner Papers, Subject Files—Housing—Rochdale
Rochdale Village File, Department of Parks and Recreation
Robert Moses Papers, Department of Parks and Recreation
Max Rubin Papers, New York City Board of Education Records
James B. Donovan Papers, New York City Board of Education Records
New York Public Library
Robert Moses Papers
New York State Archives, Albany
Subject Files—Housing—Nelson A. Rockefeller Papers
New York State Division of Housing and Urban Renewal Collection
New York University, Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
United Federation of Teachers Collection
Queens Borough Public Library, Long Island Division
Local History Collections
Personal Collections
Ad Hoc Committee Against Drug Abuse in Rochdale Village and Southeastern Queens Papers, Arthur Greene
Jamaica Branch NAACP Papers, Paul Gibson
Rochdale Village Forum e-mails, Barbara Brandes Roth
Rochdale Village Negro Cultural Society/Rochdale Black Society Papers, Cal Jones
Rochdale Village Public School Committee Papers, Jack and Sue Raskin, Herbert and Sylvia Plever
Speeches on Housing Topics, Harold Ostroff
United Shareholders Papers, Arthur Greene
Interviews
(all conducted by the author)
Abramson, Eddie, December 2004
Addabbo, Joseph Jr., February 2005
Barbour, Omar, November 2004
Booth, William, May 2005
Borovoy, Irene, May 2005
Brandes Roth, Barbara, February 2005
Brandon, Nancy, November 2005
Braithwaite Householder, Evlynne, March 2005
Chaleff, Norman, December 2004
Chertoff, Merton, March 2005
Day, Ursula, April 2005
Diaz, Clifton Stanley, March 2005
Eisenstadt, Eric, August 2005
Eisenstadt, Freddy, June 2005
Ferguson, Herman, January 2005
Gibson, Paul, May 2005
Goret, Adele, September 2004
Greene, Arthur, October 2004
Greenspan, William, March 2005
Gyory, Bruce, October 2005
Gyory, Nicholas, November 2005
Hollie, Ron, April 2005
Kahane, Libby, April 2005
Jones, Cal, December 2005, February 2005
Jones, William Henry, April 2005
Korot, Beryl and George, January 2006
Klurfeld, James, February 2005
Lapka, Larry, June 2005
Lawrence, Lloyd, January 2006
Lewis, Olga, April 2005
Lipsky, Robert, April 2005
Oliver Douglas, Merrill, February 2005
Ostroff, Harold, September 2004
Page, Ellen, November 2004
Patcher, Richard, June 2005
Perlman, Vicki, February 2005
Plever, Herbert, September 2004, January 2005
Plever, Sylvia, September 2004, January 2005
Raskin, Jack, September 2004, February 2005
Raskin, Susan, September 2004, February 2005
Raskin, Joseph, March 2005
Schwartz, Sylvia, February 2005
Spero, Francesca, November 2004
Starr, Anita, November 2004
Tewel, Kenenth, March 2005
Watkins, Juanita, January 2005
Williams, Hugh, January 2005
Wray, Ken, September 2005
Yaker, Ed, April 2005
Books and Articles
Abrams, Charles. Forbidden Neighbors: A Study of Prejudice in Housing. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955.
Amalgamated and Park Reservoir Housing Cooperatives. Story of a Co-op Community: The First 75 Years. New York: Herman Liebman Memorial Fund, 2002.
Avrich, Paul. Anarchist Portraits: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Ballon, Hilary, and Kenneth T. Jackson, eds. Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York. New York: Norton, 2007.
Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Booth, William. “Inside Story of the Rochdale Fight.” New York Amsterdam News, August 3, 1963.
Brandes, Joseph. Immigrants to Freedom: Jewish Communities in Rural New Jersey since 1882. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Buck, Rinker. “The Death of a Dream: Rochdale vs. The Teamsters,” New York Magazine, August 6, 1978.
Cannato, Vincent J. The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York City. New York: Random House, 1974.
Casin, Sheryll. The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. New York: Public Affairs, 2004.
Chen, Anthony S. “‘The Hitlerian Rule of Quotas’: Racial Conservatism and the Politics of Employment Legislation in New York State, 1941–1945,” Journal of American History 92, no. 4 (March 2006): 1238–1265.
Day, Lynda R. Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island. Interlaken, NY: Empire State Books, 1997.
Deutsch, Morton, and Mary Evans Collins. Interracial Housing: A Psychological Evaluation of a Social Experiment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1951.
Downing, Gertrude., et al. The Preparation of Teachers for Schools in Culturally Deprived Neighborhoods. Flushing, NY: Queens College, 1965.
Eisenstadt, Peter. “Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City.” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History 31 (July 2007): 33–60.
——. “Mitchell-Lama Housing,” “Co-op City,” and “Rochdale Village.” In Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York, edited by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, 305–307. New York: Norton, 2007.
Fetter, Henry D. “Revising the Revisionists: Walter O’Malley, Robert Moses, and the End of the Brooklyn Dodgers.” New York History 89, no. 1 (2008): 55–76.
Fraser, Steven. Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor. New York: Free Press, 1991.
Freeman, Joshua. Working Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II. New York: New Press, 2002.
Gutman, Marta. “Race, Place, and Play: Robert Moses and the WPA Swimming Pools in NYC.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 86 (December 2008): 532–561.
Hentoff, Nat, ed. Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House, 1961.
Jamaica Branch NAACP. Fifty Years of Service. Queens, NY: Jamaica Branch NAACP, 1977.
Jonnes, Jill. South Bronx Rising: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of an American City. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.
Kahane, Libby, Rabbi Meir Kahane: His Life and Thought, vol. 1. Jerusalem: Institute for the Publication of the Writings of Meir Kahane, 2008.
Milgram, Morris. Good Neighborhood: The Challenge of Open Housing. New York: Norton, 1977.
Moreno, Paul. From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933–1972. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.
Moses, Robert. The Civil Service of Great Britain. New York: Columbia University Press, 1914.
——. “Plan and Performance.” In A Century of Social Thought: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Duke University during the Academic Year 1938–1939 As a Part of the Centennial Celebration of that Institution, 126–142. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1939.
——. Public Works: A Dangerous Trade. New York: McGraw Hill, 1970.
——. “Rochdale: Master Planner Moses Views a Master Housing Plan.” Long Island Press, December 1, 1963.
——. Theory and Practice in Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939.
——. “What’s the Matter with New York?” New York Times, August 1, 1943.
——. Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
[Mowat, William R.] An Experimental Ministry to a High-Rise Middle-Income Housing Complex. New York: Protestant Council of the City of New York 1967.
Murray, Sylvie. The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens 1945–1965. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
New York City Market Analysis. New York: News Syndicate Company, 1943.
Pitzer, Donald, ed. America’s Communal Utopias. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1997.
Plunz, Richard. A History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Podair, Jerald E. The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill–Brownsville Crisis. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Rochdale Village 25th Anniversary Celebration, Sept 8th to 18th, 1988. Queens, NY: Rochdale Village, 1988.
Rodgers, Cleveland. Robert Moses: Builder for Democracy. New York: Henry Holt, 1952.
Rogers, David. 110 Livingston Street: Politics and Bureaucracy in the New York City Schools. New York: Random House, 1968.
Schwartz, Joel. The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 1993.
Shapiro, Hal. “Why They Picket at Rochdale.” Long Island Press, August 8, 1963.
Stern, Robert A. M., Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995.
Sugrue, Thomas. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
——. Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. New York: Random House, 2008.
Swados, Harvey. “When Black and White Live Together.” New York Times Magazine, November 13, 1966.
Taylor, Clarence. Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
United Housing Foundation. Rochdale Village: A New Concept in Community Living. New York: United Housing Foundation, 1967.
——. Rochdale Village: A Cooperative Housing Development. New York: United Housing Foundation, 1960.
Wiltse, Jeff. Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
X, Malcolm. By Any Means Necessary. Ed. George Breitman. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970.
Zeitz, Joshua M. White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics and the Shaping of Postwar Politics. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Zipp, Samuel. Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Zukovsky, Jerome. “Rochdale Village—A Test of Race and Religion.” New York Herald Tribune, March 14, 1965.
Dissertations, Theses, and Unpublished Papers
Botein, Hilary Ann. “‘Solid Testimony of Labor’s Present Status’: Unions and Housing in Postwar New York City.” PhD diss., Columbia University, 2005.
Hazelton, Andrew. “Three Bronx Utopias: Pre-War Labor Housing Cooperatives and the Socialist Vision.” N.d.
——. “Garden Courts to Tower Blocks: The Architecture and Social History of the Labor Cooperative Housing Movement in New York, 1919–1950.” N.d.
Jones, Diane H. “Rochdale Village: An Arena for Black Politics.” Master’s thesis, Columbia University School of Journalism, 1984.
Mennel, Timothy. “Everything Must Go: A Novel of Robert Moses’s New York.” PhD diss., University of Minnesota, 2007.
Ottman, Tod M. “‘Government That Has Both a Heart and a Head’: The Growth of New York State Government during the World War II Era, 1930–1950.” PhD diss., State University of New York at Albany, 2001.
Purnell, Brian. “A Movement Grows in Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Northern Civil Rights Movement.” PhD diss., New York University, 2006.
Schuman, Tony. “Labor and Housing in New York: Architect Herman Jessor and the Cooperative Movement.” N.d.
Wray, Kenneth G. “Abraham E. Kazan: The Story of the Amalgamated Houses and the United Housing Foundation.” Master’s thesis, Columbia University, 1991.