Additional Resources

On Black Culture and History

  • Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith and Cornel West. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996.
  • Graham, Lawrence Otis. Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
  • Africans in America. Directors Susan Bellows and Noland Walker. WGBH Boston Video, 2000. A six-hour television miniseries about the history of African Americans.

On Redevelopment and Urban Renewal

  • Jones, E. Michael. The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing. South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2004. An examination of the motives behind the housing policies, social engineering and other factors that devastated whole communities beginning in the 1930s.

On the Hill District

  • Bauman, John F. and Edward K. Muller. Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.
  • Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 11-14, 1999.

    “Return to Glory; Hill District Determined to Regain Lost Greatness”

    “Future Investment; Crawford Square as One of Many Vibrant New Hill Projects”

    “Heroin on the Hill; Rampant Drug Trade is Biggest Obstacle to Neighborhood Growth”

    “Keeping the Faith; Residents Working Hard to Make Most of Community’s Momentum”

  • Lubove, Roy. Twentieth Century Pittsburgh: Government, Business, and Environmental Change. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

On Golf

Owen, David. The Chosen One: Tiger Woods and the Dilemma of Greatness New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. A study of the social, economic and athletic impact of Tiger Wood’s remarkable accomplishments as a golfer.


Web Resources

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections from the website of the University of Pittsburgh

http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

http://www.academicinfo.net/africanamlibrary.html African American Digital Library

http://www.cmoa.org/teenie/info@asp Photographs by Teenie Harris, one of the Hill’s premier photographers, from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/hill A brief history of Pittsburgh’s Hill District.