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Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s (exhibition catalogue)

Eric P. Mumford, ed. Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s. St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024; distributed by the University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-936316-50-5. Introduction, p. 13: 'the clearance of the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood with the forced displacement of its 20,000 Black residents (1959).'

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mumford-design-agendas-catalogue-2024
Type
book
Trust tier
A
Status
published

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The scholarly catalogue behind the WashU exhibition, edited by an architectural historian at Washington University. Carries the 20,000 displacement figure for Mill Creek Valley. The URL is the editor’s own upload, used as the access route; the citation is the published catalogue. The quoted sentence is on printed page 13 (introduction), confirmed by receipt-gate on 2026-09-18.

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Creator
Eric P. Mumford (editor)
Published
2024
Accessed
2026-09-18

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