A Public History of Public Housing: Richmond, Virginia
Libby Germer
Published September 2015
Tools for this Unit:
Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale, eds., Public Housing Myths:
Perception, Reality, and Social Policy. (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015)
“The House You Live In,” Race: The Power of an Illusion, DVD, produced by Llewellyn
M. Smith (California Newsreel, 2003).
Christopher Silver, Twentieth-Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: The
University of Tennessee Press, 1984)
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
2013 Mayor’s Antipoverty Commission Report
Richmond Times-Dispatch articles:
June 29, 1952 “2 Public Housing Developments Slowly Nearing Completion,” etc.
“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run Features, 2011)
Materials for Classroom Use
PowerPoint presentation of archived photographs
Historical maps of Richmond
A current transit map of GRTC and available jobs
President Johnson signing the Fair Housing Act of 1968 (video clip)
Documentary film: “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”, DVD, directed by Chad Freidrichs (First Run
Features, 2011)
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