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The Harlem uprising : segregation and inequality in postwar New York City /

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a city that viewed itself as liberal. A week of uph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hayes, Christopher, 1979 August 8- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Powell, James, > 1949-1964 > Death and burial.
Harlem Race Riot, New York, N.Y., 1964.
African Americans > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Police > New York (State) > New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations.

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