When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing

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Index abandonment of housing, 60, 170–71, 183– 85, 189, 223, 235, 242–43, 252–54 Abrams, Charles, 17–19, 21, 35, 45–48, 54, 57, 81–83, 103, 156–57, 168, 214 ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 47 African Americans: general inequities borne by, 10, 16, 22, 24, 26, 45–54, 68, 71, 90, 105, 108, 111–12, 132, 149–50, 215–16; outside ghettos, 61–62, 111–12; as targets of slum clearance, 56, 63–65, 73–74, 84–86, 90–91, 147, 149–50, 158, 177. See also ARCH; Bedford-Stuyvesant; Black Panther Party; Black Power; civil rights; East New York; Harlem; Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis; public housing; rent strikes; Stuyvesant Town; War on Poverty; names of black individuals alternate (a.k.a. advocacy) planning, 96, 154–66, 171, 176–78, 211–13, 215, 221–25, 234, 239, 255, 262, 264 Amalgamated Houses, 14–15, 98, 99, 110, 120, 251 American Jewish Committee, 82, 84, 95 American Jewish Congress, 47–48, 82, 216 American Labor Party, 19–21, 24, 29, 48, 51, 53, 55, 67, 82, 91, 102, 197, 231; opposition to slum clearance by, 73–74, 84, 92–93, 96, 159 Americans for Democratic Action, 74, 84 Angotti, Thomas, 255 anti-Communism, 3, 10, 19, 63, 66–67, 82, 90, 99, 116–17, 135–36, 143; and public housing, 36–38, 41, 101; and slum clearance, 71, 94–95, 151–52; and suburbanization, 28, 39–41, 67–69; and tenants’ rights, 4, 13, 53–54, 58, 74, 84, 92–93, 101, 138, 198, 218. See also domesticity Anti-Defamation League, 216 anti-urbanism. See suburbs as norm Antonetty, Evelina, 182–83 ARCH (Architects’ Renewal Committee in Harlem), 150–51, 178, 205, 211, 218, 221–22, 226, 241 Asian Americans, 56, 73, 77, 86, 144, 147, 164, 169, 192, 205–6 Banana Kelly, 235–36 Barker, Elizabeth, 73, 102, 155 Beame, Abraham, 173–74, 228 Bedford-Stuyvesant, 12, 121, 126, 136, 143, 164, 177, 236; Restoration Corporation, 235–36 Benedict, Jane: and Communist Party, 93, 102, 245–48; early life, 92–93; and feminism , 102–3, 105, 195–99, 249, 261; legacy of, 195–99, 249–50, 261, 263–64; and Met Council, 42–43, 97–98, 119, 128, 138, 149, 151, 169–70, 192, 195–200, 205–6, 245–50, 261, 263–64; and Yorkville Save our Homes, 93–94 Berman, Marshall, 76, 78–81, 106 322 Index Bethea, Durie, 169, 170, 205–7 Biondi, Martha, 40, 45 Black, Algernon, 53, 55, 83, 126 Black, Elinor, 83–84, 86 Black Panther Party, 5, 169–70, 180, 185–88, 190, 192–93, 205, 209, 252 Black Power: early manifestations of in New York, 135, 138–39; in historigraphy, 114, 164–65, 171; in New York housing activism , 142–44, 172–73, 179, 183–84, 190, 192, 209, 212, 224, 226, 231, 253. See also Black Panther Party; Ocean Hill-Brownsville school crisis blight, 70–73, 84, 90, 92, 147, 151, 154 Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, 38 Bradshaw, Anne, 132–33, 231 Bronx, 11–12; labor co-ops, 14, 59, 65, 98–99, 120, 237, 239–41; pre-1950s activism, 13–14, 28, 97, 103; urbanism in, 74–81, 106, 215; War on Poverty and Model Cities projects, 177, 181–86 188, 190, 193–94, 235, 252; We Stay/¡Nos Quedamos!, 262 Brooklyn, 11–12, 76; CORE chapter, 121, 123, 126, 131–32, 175, 200; East New York, 111, 223–25, 229, 241; ghetto rent strikes, 121, 123, 126, 131–32, 143–44, 173, 185; Model Cities projects, 177, 228–29, 235–36; pre1950s housing activism, 13–14, 19, 28, 155; riots, 137, 223. See also Ocean HillBrownsville school crisis Brown, Ames, 203–4 Brown, Earl, 53–54, 84–85 Brown, Joan, 246–47 Brown-Isaacs law, 53–54, 57, 63 Brownmiller, Susan, 197 Buildings, New York City Department of, 15, 23, 57–59, 125, 127, 181–82, 185, 225 Burdick, Thelma, 155–56, 160–61, 163–64, 168 Cacchione, Pete, 19, 67 Call for Action, 119, 127–28, 168 Carmichael, Stokely, 172–73, 184 Caro, Robert, 43, 78, 80 Carrol, Tamar, 199 Casabe Houses, 231, 260 Chelsea. See Jane Wood Cherry, Granville, 120, 124, 128, 131–32, 137 Chinatown, 56, 144, 169, 192 Chinese Americans, 56, 77, 86, 144, 147, 164, 169, 192, 205–6 Cintrón, Pedro, 262 citizen participation, 90, 155, 160–61, 165, 176–77, 190, 212, 217, 228, 235, 241, 258. See also alternate planning; community control citizenship, urban. See citizen participation; homeownership; tenant...