Ronald Lawson: Research Files Tenant Movement in New York City 1960s-1980s

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Ronald Lawson: Research Files Tenant Movement in New York City 1960s-1980s

Ronald Lawson (1940-) is a professor emeritus of the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, the City University of New York, and the editor of and contributing author to (1986), for which he attended meetings of various tenant organizations. The collection contains detailed accounts of building conditions, rent strikes, lobbying and other activism. There are files on tenant organizations from the individual building level to the New York City and New York State level, which include meeting minutes, correspondence, internal documents and public statements and printed ephemera; several boxes of questionnaires filled out by local movement activists and leaders, and, scattered thoughout the collection, numerous interviews with such individuals. There is a smaller amount of like materials created by landlords and their organizations. There are also several book-length "manuscripts" by Lawson (i.e., a combination of narrative, notes, interviews and other materials), on organizations such as the Metropolitan Council on Housing, the Bay Ridge (Brooklyn) organization of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, the New York State Tenants' Legislative Coalition, the Brooklyn Tenants Union, the Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association, and others. There are also papers by Lawson's college students, some of them case studies of living conditions in individual buildings and/or of tenant organizations therein. The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 NOTE: This collection is housed offsite and advance notice is required for use.

20.0 linear feet; (20 boxes)

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New York State Tenants' Legislative Coalition.

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Lawson, Ronald, 1940-

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Ronald Lawson (1940-) is a professor emeritus of the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, the City University of New York, and the editor of and contributing author to The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 (1986), for which he attended meetings of various tenant organizations. From the description of Ronald Lawson: Tenant Movement in New York City Research Files undated; (bulk 1960s-1980s). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 652520336 From the guide to the Ronal...

Metropolitan Council on Housing (New York, N.Y.)

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The Metropolitan Council on Housing was formed in 1959. Veteran housing activists associated with the left (notably the American Labor Party and the Communist Party) played a prominent role; these included Esther Rand and Jane Benedict, longtime MCH leaders. MCH has fought for increased public housing, the maintenance of rent control, and other housing priorities,using a range of tactics that included rent strikes and lobbying. The records contain subject and administrative files, and include cl...

Riverside Edgecombe Neighborhood Association (New York, N.Y.)

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Metropolitan Council on Housing (New York, N.Y.). Bay Ridge Branch.

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Brooklyn Tenants Union.

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