Abraham Cleo (1 results)

First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth with dust jacket, 96 pp. A study of urban redevelopment in New Haven, Connecticut, by an African American teacher in the city's school system who also worked for a local community action group. In this book, the author considers the consequences for the Black community of New Haven's push to become a "model city" in the 1960s, asking whether the redevelopment efforts "only provide a more modern ghetto for those already enslaved by poverty and racism" while tracing New Haven's "dramatic inner city problems--the demographic shifts, the failure of the schools to speak directly to black needs, and the lack of jobs for the poor." An attractive copy with a short closed tear to upper portion of dust jacket, mild toning to jacket.