Civil rights in New York City : from World War II to the Giuliani era /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Taylor, Clarence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • To be a good American: the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor
  • Cops, schools, and communism: local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby
  • "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny": civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell
  • Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt
  • Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor
  • The dead end of despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein
  • The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez
  • "Brooklyn College belongs to us": Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi
  • Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. Rich
  • "One city, one standard": the struggle for equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York / Jerald Podair.