Mill Creek Valley A Soul of St. Louis: The Life and Death of a Black Neighborhood by Ron Fagerstrom

Mill Creek Valley, a Soul of Saint Louis, a book by Ron Fagerstrom describes life in a former inner-city neighborhood and its death in 1959 at the hand of urban renewal. Why has the St. Louis area suffered from so much racial division? As St. Louis rebuilds itself, what models can it look to for creating successful neighborhoods?

Ron Fagerstrom considers these and other questions as it takes an in depth look at one neighborhood of St. Louis that was bulldozed starting in 1959.

Paperback. 81 pages.