Reminiscences of Hortense W. Gabel, 1983

Biographical Note

Attorney at Law/Public Official.

Scope and Contents

Gabel, Hortense W. (1912-1990). Family: emphasis on education and career, progressive views of women's roles; Columbia University Law School: discrimination against women; New York City government: General Litigation Division of the Corporation Counsel, Counsel to the Rent Administration of the City of New York, Assistant to the Mayor for Housing, Rent and Rehabilitation Administration, discrimination, equal pay for equal work; Public Relations at Fort Hood in Texas; American Labor Party: Women's Division of the American Labor Party, extreme left; Committee on Discrimination in Housing; Deputy Rent Administrator for New York State; Rent Administrator for New York State; Neighborhood Conservation Program; Housing Act of 1949; Sharkey-Brown-Isaacs Bill; Urban Renewal Act of 1949; rehabilitation of Morningside Heights in New York City; renewal of Upper West Side of Manhattan; reform in public housing; rent control; political interests; anti-Semitism; news media and public opinion; the functioning of the Eightieth Congress of the United States; McCarthyism.

Subjects

• Abrams, Charles, 1902-1970.
• Connable, Roma, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Gabel, Hortense W.--Interviews.
• Housing--New York (State)
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Judicial opinions.
• Judicial process.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (State). Office of Rent Administration--Interviews.
• New York State Committee on Discrimination in Housing--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rent control--New York (State)
• Sex discrimination against women.
• Urban renewal--New York (State)--New York.
• Women judges--Interviews.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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