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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; 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 Justice7 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; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.