History in Our Everyday Lives

Notes 

1. Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth. (London, the mouthmark series, 2011).
2. Eugene J. Meehan, Public Housing Policy: Convention versus Reality (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, 1975), 176.
3. Jay Paul, “Richmond Awaits A Bold Antipoverty Plan,” New York Times, October 15, 2013.
4. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale, eds., Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy. (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015), 7.
5. Joseph Heathcott, Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy, eds. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015), 34.
6. Christopher Silver, Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984), 33.
7. Housing Authority of the City of Richmond Virginia, Annual Report 1941-1942, W.H. Schwarzchild, Chairman. December 31, 1942.
8. Silver, 110.
9. Woofter, Negro in the City, 32; Richmond City Planning Commission, “Population by Race, Richmond, Virginia, 1870-1964,” Staff Report, RDPCD.
10. Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (New York: Vintage Books, 2010), 11.
11. Silver, 121.
12. Silver, 114.
13. “The House You Live In,” Race: The Power of an Illusion, DVD, produced by Llewellyn M. Smith (California Newsreel, 2003).
14. Nelson Lichtenstein, Susan Strasser, Roy Rosenzweig, Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, ed. Stephen Brier (New York: Worth Publishers, 2000), 2: 592.
15. “The House You Live In,” Race: The Power of an Illusion, DVD, produced by Llewellyn M. Smith (California Newsreel, 2003).
16. Robert K. Nelson, “Redlining Richmond,” http://dsl.richmond.edu/holc/pages/home/ (Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond, 2015)
17. P.B. Steward to William H. Schwarzchild, Dec. 20, 1933, as attachment to letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Box H-168, Records of PHA
18. Silver, 121, 131.
19. Housing Authority of the City of Richmond Virginia, Annual Report 1941-1942, chaired by W.H. Schwarzchild. December 31, 1942.
20. Joseph Heathcott, Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy, eds. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015), 41.
21. Virginia Advisory Legislative Council, Operations of housing authorities, chaired by Mosby G. Perrow, Jr., January 9, 1958.
22. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run Features, 2011)
23. Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia, Inc., Fair Housing in Richmond, Virginia (October, 2006), 19.
24. Silver, 235.
25. A. Stoloff, A Brief History of Public Housing (Washington, DC: US Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research), 6.
26. Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Characteristics of Tenants in Richmond’s Low-Rent Housing (Richmond, September, 1979), 18.
27. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run Features, 2011)
28. Yonah Freemark, Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy, eds. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015), 125.
29. Leondra Brown-Turner, telephone interview by author, July 21, 2015.
30. Stoloff, 6, 19.
31. “The House You Live In,” Race: The Power of an Illusion, DVD, produced by Llewellyn M. Smith (California Newsreel, 2003).
32. Mayor’s Antipoverty Commission Report, chair Honorable Ellen Robertson (January 18, 2013), 18-19.
33. Meehan, 5.