Saturday, January 10, 2004

2:30–4:30 a.m.

113. Suburban Home-Ownership before It Was a National Project: Issues of Race and Class in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago, 1880–1934
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony C

Chair: Roger Biles, East Carolina University
Papers:

“One Great Big Stretch of Middle Class”: Middle-Class Housing Patterns in Metropolitan Philadelphia, 1880–1925
John Hepp, Wilkes University

Home-Ownership, Race, and Class among Ford Workers in 1920s Dearborn, Michigan
Heather Barrow, University of Chicago

Cause of Eviction: Being Black—The Racial Restrictive Covenant Case of Baker v. Engstrom in Depression-Era Evanston
Wendy Plotkin, Arizona State University


Comment: Andrew Wiese, San Diego State University