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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 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."