About the book
How to Read
How to Cite
How to Comment
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Contact the Author
Part 1: My Introduction to the Lines
Learning My Lines
Bridging the Historiographical Gap
Outline of the Book
Part 2: Defining City and Suburban Lines
The Richest City in the Nation
Carving Up Town Boundaries
A Golden Age for City Schools
Challenges for Rural and Suburban Schools
Redrawing School District Boundaries
Suburban Growth without Annexation
Part 3: Separating with Color and Class Lines
Federal Lending and Redlining
Restricting with Property Covenants
Racial Barriers to Public Housing
The Rise of Exclusionary Zoning
Part 4: Building, Selling, and Shopping the Lines
Selling Public Schools through Private Homes
Competing for Upper-Class Families
Suburban Block and School-Busting
Shopping for Test Scores
Consumerism and Credentialism
Part 5: Challenging the Power Lines
Jumping the School District Line
Part 6: Choosing to Cross the Lines
Conclusion: Where Do We Draw the Line?
How We Created On The Line
Investigating Spatial Inequality with the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project
Who Owns Oral History? A Creative Commons Solution
Weaving the 1890s Biography of Mabel White
Calculating Wealth and Poverty in Past and Present
How We Found Restrictive Covenants
Teaching and Learning with On The Line
Writing Greater Hartford’s Civil Rights Past with ConnecticutHistory.org
How Did Neighborhoods Change Over Time?
What If We Redrew the Lines?
Bibliography
Works by Cities Suburbs and Schools Project at Trinity College
Data and Maps by UConn MAGIC and Trinity College
Collections
Multimedia
Texts: Law Cases
Texts: Other
On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs by Jack Dougherty and contributors to OnTheLine.trincoll.edu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.