Suburban Steel African American History black and white

black and white

CROSSING THE ICE

by Dana Martin Batory

present a rich array of places and people from each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties

by Elizabeth Daniels

Suburban Steel African American History black and whiteSuburban Steel chronicles the rise and fall of the Lustron Corporation, once the largest and most completely industrialized housing company in U. S. history. Beginning in 1947, Lustron manufactured porcelain enameled steel houses in a one million square foot plant in Columbus, Ohio. With forty million dollars in federal funds and support from the highest levels of the Truman administration, the company planned to produce one hundred houses per day,