Annotated Bibliography
Baldwin, Davarian. Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, & Black Urban Life. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
This book is a great analysis of the consumer culture of Chicago's African American community. It was particularly useful in my interactive lecture and source selection for our discussion of "The Stroll."
Danns, Dionne. Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in Chicago Public Schools, 1963-1971. New York: Routledge, 2003.
This book offers a great resource on the battle between the policies of CPS and the Freedom Movement in Chicago. Englewood High School plays a prominent role in the text.
Encyclopedia of Chicago. The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library.
This is an invaluable resource for every Social Studies teacher in Chicago (and beyond) and I will use multiple entries in class to provide concise, well-written background information and primary sources.
Gersmehl, Phil. Teaching Human Geography. New York: Guilford Press, 2008.
This book is an amazing resource for Human Geography teachers. It offers wonderful advice on organizing your class to connect the theoretical to the practical.
Hirsh, Arnold. Making of the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Many parts of this book are useful in general terms, but Englewood is a focus as well.
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and how it Changed America. New York: Vintage, 1991.
I plan to use multiple excerpts of this text to show the growth of Chicago's Black community and the battle for housing and education.
Longstreth, Richard. "Bringing 'Downtown' to the Neighborhoods: Wiebolt's Goldblatt's, and the Creation of Department Store Chains in Chicago." Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum. Vol. 14 (Fall, 2007), p. 13-49.
This article is useful to explain why Sears and other major department stores built stores away from downtown in the Englewood neighborhood.
Longstreth, Richard. "Sears, Roebuck and the Remaking of the Department Store, 1924-1942." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 65, No 2 (June 2006). p. 238-279.
This article pairs well with the other Longstreth article on the rise of the department store in streetcar suburbs and serves as middle point for the move to suburban malls.
Matz, Mary. "TomáÅ¡ Sedláek Interview: Part 1 - Ask a Fish 'What is Water?' Prague TV. retrieved on July 22, 2012 from http://prague.tv/articles/business/tomas-sedlacek-interview-part-one.
This source offered a perfect quote for the section on framing a lesson on consumer culture for adolescents.
Patillo, Mary. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Plotkin, Wendy. "'Hemmed In': The Struggle Against Racial Restrictive Covenants and Deed Restrictions in post-WWII Chicago." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1998-), Vol. 94, No. 1, Race and Housing in Post-WWII Chicago (Spring 2001), P. 39-69.
I used this article with Family Properties to help guide my interactive lecture and source selection for the lesson on housing in Englewood.
Satter, Beryl. Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America.
I used this book along with the Plotkin article to help guide my interactive lecture and source selection for the lesson on housing in Englewood. This book is very useful in explaining the concept of Restrictive Covenants and the fight to make them illegal.
Spear, Allan H. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto 1890-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Tuttle, Jr., William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1970.
I will use excerpts from this book to help explain the growing tensions within Chicago as the African American population increased during and after World War I.
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