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Further Reading: Works Cited and Archives Consulted

Archives

Library and Archives Canada

            No. 2 Construction Battalion fonds

Archives of Ontario

            Alvin D. McCurdy collection

Municipal Archives, Windsor Public Library

           Records of the Department of Planning and Urban Renewal 1919-1991

Leddy Library Archives & Special Collections, University of Windsor

           1952 Insurance Plan of the City of Windsor

           E. Andrea Moore collection

           Windsor Interracial Council records

Southwestern Ontario Digital Archive

            City of Windsor Directories

University Archives and Special Collections, University of Saskatchewan

            Diefenbaker collection, British American Association of Coloured Brothers

Personal Collection of Patricia Neely-McCurdy

            The Guardian Club records

Digitized Newspapers and Government Documents

Ancestry.ca

            Canada Voters Lists, 1935-1980, https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/2983/

Government of Canada Publications Online

            1941 Census of Canada, https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.833108/publication.html

            1961 Census of Canada, https://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/9.831044/publication.html

Ontario Land Registry Access (ONLAND)

           Ontario Land Registry Historical Books: https://www.onland.ca/ui/lro/books/search

Dawn of Tomorrow

The Detroit Tribune

The Pittsburgh Courier

The Windsor Star

Published Works

Alexander, Estrelda Y. The Dictionary of Pan-African Pentecostalism, Volume One: North America. Eugene: Cascade Books, 2018.

Backhouse, Constance. Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Bridgen-Lennie, Lorene. “‘Lifting As We Climb’: The Emergence of an African-Canadian Civil Society in Southern Ontario, 1840-1901.” PhD diss., University of Waterloo, 2016.

Bristow, Peggy. ‘We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up’: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Bristow, Peggy. “A Duty to the Past, a Promise to the Future: Black Organizing in Windsor – The Depression, World War II, and the Post-War Years.” New Dawn, The Journal of Black Canadian Studies 2, no. 1 (2007): 15-59. https://journals.scholarsportal.info/browse/17154081. 

Brode, Patrick. The River and the Land: A History of Windsor to 1900. Windsor: Biblioasis, 2014.

Campbell, Lara. Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.

Campbell, Victoria. “The Greatest Freedom Show on Earth”: Emancipation Celebrations in Windsor, Ontario, 1957-1968.” Southern Journal of Canadian Studies 5, no. 1-2 (2012): 66-81. https://doi.org/10.22215/sjcs.v5i1.289.

Carroll, Barbara W. “Post-war Trends in Canadian Housing Policy.” Urban History Review 18, no. 1 (1989): 64-74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43561950.

Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada). Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation Annual Report, 1959. Government of Canada Report, Ottawa, 1960.

Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada). Urban Renewal Seminar: A Report of a Meeting Held in Ottawa, September 1959. Government of Canada Report, Ottawa, 1959.

City of Windsor. 1959. “Windsor Ontario Report Progress Review, 1955-1959.” SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/85.

City of Windsor. 1963. “Windsor Ontario Report Progress Review, 1963.” SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/89.

Clairmont, Donald H. J. and Dennis W. Magill. Africville: The Life and Death of a Canadian Black Community. 3rd Edition. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1999.

Conforth, Bruce, and Gayle Dean Wardlow. Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson. Chicago: Chicago Review Press Inc., 2019.

Davis, Irene Moore. “Canadian Black Settlements in the Detroit River Region.” In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland, edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost and Veta Smith Tucker, 83-102. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016.

Davis, Irene Moore. Our Own Two Hands: Black Lives in Windsor from the 1700s Forward. Windsor: Biblioasis, 2020.

Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Canada Yearbook, 1959: Official Statistical Annual of the Resources, History, Institutions, and Social and Economic Conditions of Canada. Government of Canada Report, Ottawa, 1959.

Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. “Hidden in Plain Sight: African American Secret Societies and Black Freemasonry.” The Journal of African American Studies 16, no. 4 (2012): 622-637. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43525440.

Faludi, E. G. “Fifteen Year Programme for the Urban Renewal of the City of Windsor, and its Metropolitan Area, 1959.” E.G. Faludi and Associates Town Planning Consultants, Toronto, 1959.

First Baptist Church. First Baptist Church: 125th Anniversary, 1853-1978. Windsor, Printed by the author, 1978.

Frost, Karolyn S., Bryan Walls, Hilary Bates Neary, and Frederick H. Armstrong, eds. Ontario  African-Ontario Heritage: Collected Writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2009.

Gates, Henry L. The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.

Gooden, Amoaba. “Establishing Communities.” In Unsettling the Great White North: Black Canadian History, edited by Michele A. Johnson and Funké Aladejebi, 194-221. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Greig, Christopher J. “Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945-1965.” In Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place, edited by Peter Gossage and Robert Allen Rutherdale, 292-310. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018.

Gross, William R. 1961. “The Redevelopment Area of Windsor to 1900.” Master’s thesis, Assumption University of Windsor.

Helling, Rudolf A. The Position of Negroes, Chinese and Italians in the Social Structures of Windsor, Ontario. A Report for The Ontario Human Rights Commission, University of Windsor, 1965.

Henry, Natasha L. Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada. Toronto: Dundurn, 2010.

Hill, Daniel G. The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada. Agincourt: The Book Society of Canada Ltd., 1981.

Hirsch, Arnold R. Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

Karibo, Holly Marie. “Ambassadors of Pleasure: Illicit Economies in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland, 1945-1960.” PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2012.

Longo, Julie. “Consuming Freedom: The International Freedom Festival as Transnational Tourism Strategy on the Windsor-Detroit Border, 1959-1976.” Michigan Historical Review 34, no. 2 (2008): 118-137. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20174288.

Loo, Tina. “Africville and the Dynamics of State Power in Postwar Canada.” Acadiensis 39, no. 2 (2010): 23-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41803299.

Loo, Tina. Moved by the State: Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019.

Lowden, James David. “Urban Renewal in Canada: A Post-mortem.” Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1970. https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0102028.

McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Mele, Christopher. “Neoliberalism, Race and the Redefining of Urban Redevelopment.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37, no. 2 (2013): 598-617. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01144.x.

Morrison, Neil F. Garden Gateway to Canada: One Hundred Years of Windsor and Essex County, 1854-1954. Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1954.  https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/113.

Mosher, Clayton James. Discrimination and Denial: Systemic Racism in Ontario’s Legal and Criminal Justice System, 1892-1961. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Perry, Charlotte Bronte. One Man’s Journey: The Biography of Alderman Dr. Roy Prince Edward Perry, D.D.S. Windsor: Sumner Printing & Publishing Company Ltd., 1982.

Perry, Charlotte Bronte. The Long Road: The History of the Coloured Canadian in Windsor, Ontario, 1867-1967. Windsor: Sumner Printing & Publishing Company Ltd., 1967.

Pickett, Stanley H. “An Appraisal of the Urban Renewal Programme in Canada.” The University of Toronto Law Journal 18, no. 3 (1968): 233-247. https://www.jstor.org/stable/824956.

Plaut, Jonathan V. The Jews of Windsor, 1790-1990: A Historical Chronicle. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007.

Poremba, David Lee. Detroit: A Motor City History. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

Robbins, Arlie C. Prince Hall Masonry in Ontario, 1852-1933. Printed by the author, 1980.

Robinson, J. Lewis. “Windsor, Ontario: A Study in Urban Geography.” Master’s Thesis, Syracuse University, 1942.

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017.

Rutland, Ted. Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2018.

Schein, Zeke and Poppy Z. Brite. Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson’s Lost Photograph. Gretna: Pelican Publishing Company, 2017.

Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class  in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949.” Labour/Le Travail 47 (2001): 83-113. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25149114.

Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

The Northstar Cultural Community Centre. End of the Journey: A Brief History of Windsor’s African Canadian Community. Windsor: Allegra Print and Imaging, 2007.

The Northstar Cultural Community Centre. McDougall Street Reflections: A Walk Down Memory Lane. Windsor: The Northstar Cultural Community Centre, 2006.

Thomas, June Manning. Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.

Trotter, Joe W. “African American Fraternal Associations in American History: An Introduction.” Social Science History 28, no. 3 (2004): 355-366. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40267850.

Walker, Barrington. The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Walker, James W. St. G. Race, Rights, and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada: Historical Case Studies. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997

Winks, Robin W. The Blacks in Canada: A History. 2nd Edition. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.