Michney, Todd M.,

Surrogate suburbs : black upward mobility and neighborhood change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 / Todd M. Michney. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Second ghetto" or surrogate suburb?: black mobility in the twentieth-century outer city -- The roots of upward mobility: outlying black settlement before 1940 -- Expanding black settlement in the 1940s: Glenville and Mount Pleasant -- Zoning, development, and residential access: Lee-Miles in the 1950s and 1960s -- Racial residential transition at the periphery: neighborhood contrasts -- Mobility and insecurity: dilemmas of the black middle class -- Urban change and reform agendas in Cleveland's black middle-class neighborhoods, 1950-1980.



9781469631967 9781469631950


Middle class African Americans--Housing--History--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.
Middle class African Americans--History--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.
Middle class African Americans--Social conditions--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.
Social mobility--History--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.
Neighborhoods--Social aspects--History--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.
African American neighborhoods--History--Ohio--Cleveland--20th century.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .S877 2017