History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Notes 
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Appendix

A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia

Libby Germer

Published September 2015

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Bibliography for Teachers

  1. Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale, eds., Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy. (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015)
  2. “The House You Live In,” Race: The Power of an Illusion, DVD, produced by Llewellyn M. Smith (California Newsreel, 2003).
  3. Christopher Silver, Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984)
  4. Jerry Albarelli and Amy Starecheski, The Telling Lives Oral History Curriculum Guide (New York: The Columbia University Center for Oral History, 2005).

Reading List for Students

  1. 2013 Mayor’s Antipoverty Commission Report
  2. Richmond Times-Dispatch articles:
    1. June 29, 1952 “2 Public Housing Developments Slowly Nearing Completion,” etc.
  3. “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run Features, 2011)

Materials for Classroom Use

  1. PowerPoint presentation of archived photographs
  2. Historical maps of Richmond
  3. A current transit map of GRTC and available jobs
  4. President Johnson signing the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (video clip)
  5. Documentary film: “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run Features, 2011)

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