Faculty

Charles F. (Fritz) Casey-Leininger
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: 20th Century United States,
African American, Civil Rights, Urban, Cincinnati

Phone: 513-556-2463
Email: caseylcf@uc.edu
Office: varies

I am a long time resident of the City of Cincinnati, a factor reflected in my teaching and research interests. I received my Ph.D. at UC while studying race, housing, poverty, and urban renewal in Cincinnati after World War II. I use that material in several of my courses.  I am currently working on a history of the Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, a topic that is both new to me and but that also touches on my previous interests.  I especially enjoy working directly with students on their research projects, but also find lecture courses challenging and fun including the American History Survey

Selected Courses:
History of the Civil Rights Movement
History of African Americans in Cities in the 20th Century
History of Cincinnati
Junior and Senior Seminars on the History of Cincinnati
Junior and Senior Seminars on the Black Freedom
Struggle in the North
Introduction to American History.

Selected Publications:
"Not the Most Dramatic of Slum Properties: The Standish Apartment Rent Strike and Community Organizing for Racial Justice in Cincinnati." In The Black Freedom Struggle in the Midwest, ed. Rusty Monhollan. Athens: Ohio University Press, forthcoming.

"Giving Meaning to Democracy: The Development of a Fair Housing Movement in Cincinnati, 1945-1970." In Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America, ed. Robert B. Fairbanks and Patricia Mooney-Melvin Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001.

"Making the Second Ghetto in Cincinnati: Avondale, 1925-70." In Race and the City : Work, Community, and Protest in Cincinnati, 1820-1970, ed. Henry Louis Taylor Jr.. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.