Reminiscences of Hortense W. Gabel : oral history, 1983.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Reminiscences of Hortense W. Gabel : oral history, 1983.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269253090

Gabel, Hortense W. (1912-1990). Family: emphasis on education and career, progressive views of women's roles; Columbia University Law School: discrimination against women; New York City government: General Litigation Division of the Corporation Counsel, Counsel to the Rent Administration of the City of New York, Assistant to the Mayor for Housing, Rent and Rehabilitation Administration, discrimination, equal pay for equal work; Public Relations at Fort Hood in Texas; American Labor Party: Women's Division of the American Labor Party, extreme left; Committee on Discrimination in Housing; Deputy Rent Administrator for New York State; Rent Administrator for New York State; Neighborhood Conservation Program; Housing Act of 1949; Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs Bill; Urban Renewal Act of 1949; rehabilitation of Morningside Heights in New York City; renewal of Upper West Side of Manhattan; reform in public housing; rent control; political interests; anti-Semitism; news media and public opinion; the functioning of the Eightieth Congress of the United States; McCarthyism.

transcript: 115 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7171874

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

New York (State). Office of Rent Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n63jdx (corporateBody)

Gabel, Hortense W.,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pv7h83 (person)

Attorney at Law/Public Official. From the description of Reminiscences of Hortense W. Gabel : oral history, 1983. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 269253090 ...

Connable, Roma

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67s8m46 (person)

New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j1510f (corporateBody)

Abrams, Charles, 1902-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t44cn7 (person)

Housing expert. From the description of Reminiscences of Charles Abrams : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608239 Lawyer, urban housing planner, professor of city planning. Charles Abrams studied at Brooklyn Law School, and was a landlord in Greenwich Village. He became an authority on urban housing, and served as a consultant on various private, state, federal, and international housing projec...