Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn /

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purnell, Brian, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Colección:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Temas:
Congress of Racial Equality. > Brooklyn Chapter.
1900 - 1999
African Americans > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Droits > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans > Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race relations
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nostalgia, narrative, and northern civil rights movement history
  • "Pass them by! Support your brothers and sisters in the south!" : The origins of Brooklyn CORE
  • Why not next door? : Battling housing discrimination, case by case
  • Operation unemployment : Breaking through the color line in local industries
  • Operation clean sweep : The movement to create a "first-class Bedford-Stuyvesant"
  • "A war for the minds and futures of our negro and Puerto Rican children" : The Bibuld family's fight to desegregate Brooklyn's public schools
  • "We had struggled in vain" : Protest for construction jobs and specters of violence
  • "A gun at the heart of the city" : The World's Fair stall-in and the decline of Brooklyn CORE
  • Conclusion : "Brooklyn stands with Selma."

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