Seidenberg, Melvin - 1990 - Tape 1, Side 1
Metadata Details
- Title
- Seidenberg, Melvin - 1990 - Tape 1, Side 1
- Description
- [T1S1] birth in Pueblo, Colorado, 1915; early life in Pueblo; education at the University of Oklahoma; return to Pueblo in 1936; enlistment in Navy in 1942; his religious education; anti-Semitism in high school; recollections of early life in Colorado; a writer for the Navy until 1945; is hired by the "Pittsburgh Post Gazette" in 1946; settles in Wilkinsburg, then moves to Forest Hills; his work with the "Post Gazette" from 1952 to 1962; begins writing about real estate, equity in housing in 1962 with Florence Reizenstein; publishes a book on Pittsburgh's Urban Renewal with Roy Stryker; improvements in the city; active in GASP and Sierra Club; discussion of racial segregation in Pittsburgh in the 1950s; Jewish cemeteries.
- Contributor
- University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
- Identifier
- pitt:ais196440.413_t1s1
- Relation
- ais196440.413