Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2006.026.002 |
Collection |
Feldman, Nancy |
Object Name |
Application |
Date |
04/28/1967 |
Digital Link |
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Scope & Content |
Application containing 374 pages submitted to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development from Tulsa Mayor James Marion Hewgley, Jr. and the Tulsa Board of Commissioners for a Grant to Plan a Comprehensive City Demonstration Program, dated April 28 1967. The application asked for a grant in the amount of $119,325 for a nine-month period. The goal of the proposal included the extension of the decent, respectable standard of living, economically, physically, psychologically and sociologically to everyone in the project area. Specific goals included the following: the transformation of Tulsa into one city united in its goals and concerns, equal in its opportunity; attainable and observable avenues toward better living in terms of employment, housing, education, and general environment; greatly increased self-help and self-determination within the area; and the cooperation of Tulsa's established agencies in extending needed services to the area on a coordinated basis. The application contains background information on the city of Tulsa, including an in-depth community description. It also identifies three areas of blight: the area along the Sand Springs Line, west of the business district north of the Arkansas River; the West Tulsa-Red Fork area located southwest of the business district and west of the Arkansas River; and the Washington Community, more popularly known as Greenwood, the concentration of Black neighborhoods lying immediately north of the central business section. The application contains demographics such as population density, family income, unemployment, welfare, crime and juvenile delinquency, housing, education, and health. The application also includes a map of the Model Cities target neighborhood, located north of the central business district and east of the Osage County and Tulsa County line, and extending east to North Yale Avenue. It also contains black & white images of various area of blight, as well as Tulsa newspaper clippings concerning the Model Cities Program. |
Search Terms |
city & urban planning demographics Greenwood District housing plans & studies segregation Seminole Hills Urban Renewal Project slums Target Area Action Group (TAAG) Tulsa Model Cities Program |
People |
Baker, Claudia Bell, William H. Chapman, Paul Feldman, Nancy Forrest, Clyde W. Gatchell, Lois H. Hartsfield, Robert J. Hewgley, Jr., James Marion Hightower, Jess M. Jacobson, Elden LaFortune, Robert James Lambert, William F. Maddox, Julia Y. Roberts, C. J. Shepherd, Byron L. Temple, Jr., William F. Ward, Charles William Wegner, Robert L. Westby, Kathleen P. Whitlow, Jr., Henry C. Wilkinson, J. M. |