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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
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- Creator
- Brian Purnell
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- ix, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813141824, 0813141826, 9780813141831, 0813142601, 9780813141848, 0813141842, 0813141834, 9780813142609, 1299533523, 9781299533523
- OCLC
- ocn818735092, ocn842972115
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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."
Subjects
- Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter.
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.