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Civil Rights in New York City : From World War II to the Giuliani Era /
Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in...
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2011]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Civil Rights in New York City
- 1. To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War
- 2. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies-New York City in the 1950s
- 3. ''Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny'': Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962
- 4. Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City
- 5. Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign
- 6. The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- 7. The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism
- 8. ''Brooklyn College Belongs to Us'': Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City
- 9. Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins's Image
- 10. ''One City, One Standard'': The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index