Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex - Women’s Roles in Low-Income Housing Complexes and the 1969 Rent Strike
- Title
- Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex - Women’s Roles in Low-Income Housing Complexes and the 1969 Rent Strike
- Description
- In 1969, Black women from across St. Louis’s low-income housing complexes led one of the largest rent strikes in American history. For nine months, over 2,400 tenants withheld hundreds of thousands of dollars from the city’s housing authority while demanding fair rents based on income, greater resident involvement in decision making, and improved living conditions. In the end, the city gave in and adopted all of their demands. This victory rewrote housing policy across the United States, ensuring that fewer families had to make the heartbreaking choice between paying to keep a roof over their heads or food on their tables.
- Creator
- Lindsay Davis
- Semester
- Intro to Public History
- Subject
- Historic Marker Nominations
- Pruitt-Igoe Housing Complex
- Women’s Roles
- Low-Income Housing
- Rent Strike
- Black St. Louis History and Experience
- Protest
- St. Louis History
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- UMSL Digital Humanities Lab
- Date
- 2020
- Identifier
- Coordinates: 38.6431893, -90.2130937