A PRRAC Publication (February 2005). Excerpt: "Thompson v. HUD was filed in 1994 on behalf of a class of African American public housing residents. Like several other public housing desegregation cases, the Thompson case was triggered by the demolition of a high rise public housing development, with plans to locate replacement housing in neighborhoods with similar levels of … [Read more...] about An Analysis of the Thompson v. HUD Decision (PRRAC, February 2005)
Publications
“Democracy’s Unfinished Business”: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-1968 (David M.P. Freund, June 2004)
A PRRAC Report. By David M. P. Freund, Princeton University. Excerpt: "In July of 1963, the administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency (HHFA), Robert C. Weaver, spoke to a meeting of his Intergroup Relations Service (IRS), the “race relations” staff charged with promoting non-discrimination in federal housing programs. His talk came at a time of dramatic change in … [Read more...] about “Democracy’s Unfinished Business”: Federal Policy and the Search for Fair Housing, 1961-1968 (David M.P. Freund, June 2004)
Hirsch, Mohl, and Freund “Housing and School Segregation: Government Culpability, Government Remedies” (PRRAC, 2004)
Hirsch, Mohl, and Freund "Housing and School Segregation: Government Culpability, Government Remedies" (PRRAC, 2004) … [Read more...] about Hirsch, Mohl, and Freund “Housing and School Segregation: Government Culpability, Government Remedies” (PRRAC, 2004)
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (PRRAC & Teaching for Change, 2004)
A PRRAC & Teaching for Change Publication (2004). Synopsis: Interactive, interdisciplinary lessons, readings, photographs, primary documents, and interviews, with sections on education, labor, citizenship, culture, and reflections on teaching about the Civil Rights Movement. By putting the Movement back into civil rights teaching, we hope to help students find their … [Read more...] about Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (PRRAC & Teaching for Change, 2004)
Fragmented: Improving Education for Mobile Students (Lynora Williams, October 2003)
A PRRAC Publication (October 2003). By Lynora Williams, with a foreword by Wendy Puriefoy of The Public Education Network. Synopsis: Drawing on the material from the Winter 2003 Journal of Negro Education (“Student Mobility: How Some Children Get Left Behind”), co-edited by PRRAC’s Founder/past Director of Research Chester Hartman, Fragmented outlines the specific classroom … [Read more...] about Fragmented: Improving Education for Mobile Students (Lynora Williams, October 2003)
