The Hill District: For Further Reading

Crawford Grill

Meyer, M. E. "Hill Street Jazz: Crawford Grill Takes Jazz Back Where It Started," In Pittsburgh, 11 May 1988, 4-5.

Harris, Charles "Teenie"

Miller, Donald. "Eye on The Hill from the '30s to the '50s," [Photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris], Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 June 1986, 14-15.

Hill District--Community

Bryant, Jean. "Special Corner Taking Shape," [Freedom Corner Memorial], Pittsburgh Press, 12 May 1992, A2.

Carlisle, Anthony Todd. "Organization Tries to Make Hill District a Neighborhood Again," [Hill District Area Project Committee], New Pittsburgh Courier, 24 July 1993, B1.

Donalson, Al. "Oral History of The Hill District Planned," Pittsburgh Press, 29 February 1984.

___________ and Beth Dunlop, "Here's View of Progress from The Hill 4 Years after Violence over King Death," Pittsburgh Press, 10 April 1972, 2.

"The Future of The Hill," [Editorial], Pittsburgh Press, 22 November 1983, B2.

Haynes, Sonya M. "Hill House Agencies' Payoff: Client Upward Mobility," New Pittsburgh Courier, 17 August 1994, A4.

_______________. "Everybody Likes Mike: 'Hokey Man' Wheels and Deals on Hill," New Pittsburgh Courier, 6 August 1994, A1.

"Hill District Map Collects Dust," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 24 July 1972.

"The Hill House Association 25th Anniversary 1964-1989: New Pittsburgh Courier Commemorative Edition, October 11, 1989," New Pittsburgh Courier, 11 October 1989.Press, 22 November 1983, B2.

Johnson, Sonya, "Hill House Computer Program Helps Bridge Generation Gap," New Pittsburgh Courier, 27 August 1985.

Leherr, Dave, Marcia Henderson, and Thomas M. Hritz. "Education Key to Better Life for Youngsters of The Hill," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 March 1975, 13.

Pade, William. "Hill Progress to Close Caputo's, Landmark of City's 'Little Italy,' Pittsburgh Press, 18 December 1956.

Perlmutter, Ellen M. "New Image for Hill District an Uphill Struggle," Pittsburgh Press, 4 August 1986, B1,B3.

Perry, Arlethia. "Hill Groups Uniting for Betterment," New Pittsburgh Courier, 14 July 1979, 12.

Pittler, Alexander Zerful. The Hill District--A Study in Succession [Thesis]. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1930.

Reid, Ira De A. Social Conditions of the Negro in The Hill District of Pittsburgh. [Pittsburgh]: General Committee on the Hill Survey, 1930.

Sachs, Sylvia. "Hill District Map Has a 'Heart'," Pittsburgh Press, 7 February 1971.

Wylie Avenue Days. Producers Doug Bolin and Christopher Moore. 60 min. QED Communications Inc., 1991. Videocassette.

Hill District--Redevelopment

Hamm, Sandy. "Dinwiddie Street Renovation: $1.5 Million Restoration Plan for Hill District's Unique Brownstones," New Pittsburgh Courier, 17 August 1994, A1.

Haynes, Sonya M. "Habitat Helping Hill Housing Needs," New Pittsburgh Courier, 16 April 1994, A1,A4.

"Hill Renewal Called Vital to Survival: Self-Sufficient Area Necessary, Planners Say," Pittsburgh Press, 11 July 1972, 11.

Mallett, William J. "Redevelopment & Response: The Lower Hill Renewal and Pittsburgh's Original Cultural District," Pittsburgh History, Winter 1992-93, 176-190.

Rotstein, Gary. "Signs of Progress in The Hill: Officials Are Predicting 1995 May Be the Year for Centre Ave. Corridor," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 19 December 1994, B5.

Stack, Barbara White. "Revival: Redevelopment Authority to Consider Plan for Hill District," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 December 1983, 1,6.

Hill District--Visitors

"[Stokely] Carmichael in The Hill District," The Pittsburgh Point, 9 March 1967, 6.

Pittsburgh Crawfords & Homestead Grays

Bankes, James. The Pittsburgh Crawfords: The Lives and Times of Black Baseball's Most Exciting Team. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1991.

Brashler, William. Josh Gibson: A Life in the Negro Leagues. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

Peterson, Robert W. "Only the Ball Was White," Part I, Pittsburgh Press, 26 July 1970, [Sunday Magazine], 4-6, 15.

_________________. "Only the Ball Was White," Part II, Pittsburgh Press, 2 August 1970, [Sunday Magazine], 4-6, 15.

Sanchez, Annette Bassett. "Kings on The Hill...Crawfords Subject of Black Baseball Documentary," New Pittsburgh Courier, 11 April 1992, C1.

St. Benedict's Church

Stadelman, Rev. William F. Saint Benedict's Church: Beginnings and Growth of the Colored Catholic Parish, Overhill St., Pittsburgh, Pa., 1844-1921. Pittsburgh: Rev. Wm. F. Stadelman, C. S. Sp., [1921].

Wilson, August

Sanchez, Annette Bassett. "Pittsburgh's August Wilson Speaks: Of Angels, Pulitzers and the Black Experience," New Pittsburgh Courier, 3 October 1992, C3.

Vanwyngarden, Bruce. "August Wilson: The 1990 Pittsburgher of the Year," Pittsburgh (January 1990): 28-32.

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