Housing the Great Migration
Resources

The following are resources teachers and students can use in studying the issues surrounding Housing the Great Migration, which is the focus of this lesson. Marked (X) resources are also found on the CD-Rom that accompanies the teacher's guide for the 20th Century Interactive project. When looking for resources, also check out the links for this unit.

Advertisements, Brochures and Pamphlets

• (X) Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority. "Laurel Homes, Then and Now." [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center PAM 352.75 L378]
• (X) Mariemont: "Mariemont: The Ideal Setting for Your Dreams!" [brochure] [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center PAM ff917.714 M334]
• (X) Schmidlapp Model Homes: Citizens Committee on Slum Clearance and Low Rent Housing. "Better Homes for Cincinnati's Children" [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center PAM 352.75 C581

Books and Book Excerpts

• Arnow, Harriette Louisa Simpson. "The Dollmaker." 1954. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1985.
• Catanese, Anthony J. and James C. Snyder. "Introduction to Urban Planning." New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979.
• Drake, Richard B. "A History of Appalachia." Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
• Lemann, Nicholas. "The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America." New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
• Marks, Carole. Farewell, We're Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
• Obermiller, Phillip J., Thomas E. Wagner, and E. Bruce Tucker, eds. Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2000. (See especially chapters 7 and 11 on Appalachian migration to Cincinnati.)
• Philliber, William W. Appalachian Migrants in Urban America: Cultural Conflict or Ethnic Group Formation? New York: Praeger, 1981. (Focuses on Appalachian migration to Cincinnati.)
• Relph, Edward. The Modern Urban Landscape: 1880 to the Present. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
• Roberson, Susan L., ed. Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. (See especially the chapter on Arnow's The Dollmaker.)
• (X) Rogers, Millard F., Jr. Excerpt from "Rich in Good Works: Mary M. Emery of Cincinnati." Akron: University of Akron Press, 2001, pp. 77-93. [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center B E53R]
• Sennett, Richard, ed. Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities. Prentice-Hall, 1969.
• Taylor, Henry Louis, ed. Race and the City: Work, Community and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. (See especially chapters 6, 7, and 9, which address housing issues.)
• Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Crusade for Justice: Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. Ed. Alfreda M. Duster. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

• (X) "Can Integration Work?: Schools at Turning Point" Dayton Daily News (28 April 1969): 1A and 7A.
• (X) "City's Plan to Renovate Burns Area Dealt Blow." Dayton Daily News (16 July 1971): 40.
• (X) "Grade Schools Crowded: "Will It Go On Forever?" Dayton Daily News (28 April 1969).
• (X) "Housing Code Has Enforcement Flaw" Dayton Daily News (30 April 1969): 1, 6 and 41.
• (X) "Project Area's Fight on Crime" Dayton Daily News (29 April 1969): 1 and 20.
• (X) "Project Stabilization: Dayton's Mobilization Against Fear." Dayton Daily News (27 April 1969): 1Aand 7A.
• (X) Bland, Jim. "Aroused Burns-Jackson Residents Calling City the Enemy." Dayton Daily News (9 Aug 1970).
• (X) Bryant, John. "Model Cities - A Controversial Three-Year-Old." Dayton Daily News (20 Dec 1970): 13-B.
• (X) Dansker, Emil. "Built-In Delays Frustrate Joe Wine's Housing Efforts." Dayton Daily News (5 July 1970).
• (X) Dutton, Thomas A. "'Violence' in Cincinnati." The Nation Vol 272 no. 24 (18 June 2001): 6-7.
• (X) Erickson, John. "Model Cities Gone But Not Forgotten." Dayton Daily News (28 Nov 1984).
• (X) Harris, Henry. "Money Runs Out: Rats Still There." Dayton Daily News (28 Oct 1973).
• (X) Heller, Ann. "Architect's Love Affair With Burns-Jackson Dies Hard." Journal Herald (19 June 1972).
• (X) Heller, Ann. "Old Oregon Neighborhood Holds Ever-changing Mix." Journal Herald (26 April 1976).
• (X) Heller, Ann. "Oregon Looks the Same Despite Much Restoration." Journal Herald (26 April 1976).
• (X) Heller, Ann. "Oregon Opens Up, but Caution Remains." Journal Herald (26 April 1976
• (X) Roth, Mark. "Answers Aren't Easy." Journal Herald (5 July 1974)
• (X) Schmidlapp Model Homes: Knerr, Douglas G. "Housing Reform and benevolent Capitalism." Queen City Heritage Vol 43, no. 2 (Summer 1985), 25-41.
• (X) Seaman, Henry. "Burns-Jackson: Something Old, Something New." Dayton Daily News ((12 Oct 1966)
• (X) Shere, Dennis. "Model Cities: Failed Promise of the '60s." Dayton Daily News (2 Dec 1984): 11-B.

Songs, Letters, Speeches, Reports

• (X)Burns-Jackson Corporation. "Minutes of a Specialial Meeting of the Board of Directors." (20 Jan 1972). [Wright State University, Dunbar Special. Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson Project, Box 1, folder 3.]
• (X)Burns-Jackson Corporation. "Relocation Plan for the Burns-Jackson Urban Renewal Area--First Draft for Discussion." (undated). [Wright State University, Dunbar Special Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson Project, Box 1, folder 12.]
• (X)Burns-Jackson Project: Bertrand Goldberg Associates. "Burns-Jackson: A Study for Renewal." September 1966. [Wright State University, Dunbar Special Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson Project, Box 1, folder 27].
• (X)Cincinnati City Planning Committee. "North Avondale Community Master Plan." (Jan 1974) [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center f711.409 C574no]
• (X)Dayton City Plan Board. Oregon Historic District Plan. Dayton, OH: The Board, 1975. [Wright State University Dunbar Special Collections, HT165.D2 C5]
• (X)Marshall, Carl H. Letter to Robert A. Flynn describing the Morton Hoffman and Company's Feasibility Study of Goldberg's Burns-Jackson Project." (12 November 1970) 1-2; 21-24. [Wright State University Dunbar Special Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson, Box 1, folder 6.]
• (X)Schmidlapp, Jacob. "Low-Priced Housing for Wage Earners." (1919) [Cincinnati Historical Society Library/Cincinnati Museum Center PAM 363.59 S348 c.2]

Videos and Films

• Blacks in Suburbia. Princeton, NJ: Film for the Humanities, 1994. [VHS; 28 min.] (Phil Donahue focuses on the relocation of poor black families from one of Chicago's worst public housing projects.)
• Brokers, Buyers and Bias: An Introduction to Fair Housing Compliance. Chicago, IL: National Association of Realtors, 1985. [VHS; 100 min.] (Explains how discriminatory behavior can occur and what can be done to prevent it.)
• Call It Home: The House That Private Enterprise Built. Santa Monica, CA: Voyager Co., 1992. [Videodisc; 56 min.] (A pictorial history of suburban development planned by developers, government agencies, and savings and loan companies. Begins at the time of the Depression and concludes with the 1960s. Includes discussion of garden cities, Levittowns, and racial segregation.)
• A Dream Deferred. Bethesda, MD: Discovery Channel, 1995. [VHS; 90 min.] (Documents the migration of rural southern blacks from the segregated south to Chicago; cultural and political gains are offset by overcrowding and the ghettoization of blacks. Includes historical footage and personal interviews.)
• HUD: America's Slumlord. New York: A & E Home Video, 1994. [VHS; 50 min.] (Documentary exploring the corruption, mismanagement, and scandal within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; reveals how urban renewal has turned into urban blight.)
• Racial Integration: America's Long March. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. [VHS; 75 min.] (A BBC production looking at American social and economic policies and focusing on the status of racial relations and integration.)
• The Right to Live, the Right to Choose. Cleveland, OH: WKYC-TV, 1984. [VHS; 53 min.] (Studies housing discrimination in Ohio's cities.)
• A Tale of Two Cities. New York: Ambrose Video Publishing, 1993. [VHS; 14 min.] Focuses on racial discrimination in employment and housing in Illinois.
• Why Can't We Live Together? New York: NBC News, 1997. [VHS; 49 min.] Examines the reality of racial separation in American suburbia even after the end of legal discrimination in housing. Discusses the social and economic consequences of black families moving into middle-class, predominantly white suburbs and the resulting white flight.

Resources Specific to an Urban Area

Avondale

• Casey-Leininger, Charles F. "Making the Second Ghetto in Cincinnati: Avondale, 1925-70." Race and the City: Work, Community and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970. Ed. Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Especially see pp. 232-257.

Burns-Jackson Project

• Burns-Jackson Corporation. "Relocation Plan for the Burns-Jackson Urban Renewal Area - First Draft for Discussion." (undated). [Wright State University, Dunbar Special Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson Project, Box 1, Folder 12.]
• "City's Plan to Renovate Burns Area Dealt Blow." Dayton Daily News (16 July 1971): 40.
• Burns-Jackson Corporation. "Minutes of a Special Meeting of the Board of Directors." (20 Jan 1972). [Wright State University, Dunbar Special Collections, MS-142, Burns-Jackson Project, Box 1, Folder 3.]

Dayton Model Cities Program

• Roth, Mark. "Answers Aren't Easy." Journal Herald (5 July 1974).

Mariemont

• Hill, G. Carlton Jr. "A Dream Come True: A Brief History of Mariemont." Cincinnati, OH: The C.J. Krehbiel. Co., 2000.
• Parks, Warren Wright. "The Mariemont Story: A National Exemplar in Town Planning." Cincinnati, OH: Creative Writers & Publishers, Inc., 1967.

Marked (X) resources are also found on the CD-Rom that accompanies the teacher's guide for the 20th Century Interactive project.

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