... of the Atlanta University Center, including W. E. B. Du Bois, as a community building to build community, a space where the public housing residents could cultivate the skills they needed to engage in the collective fight for enfranchisement in Jim Crow Georgia. As Christina E. Crawford describes in Black...

...Joseph Heathcott Several important episodes in the early history of mass housing in America are the subject of " In the Nature of a Clinic": The Design of Early Public Housing in St. Louis. In the late 1920s housing and reform advocates coalesced out of the strong St. Louis settlement house to push...