Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings
Purnell, Brian, 1978-
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings the Congress of racial equality in Brooklyn / [electronic resource] : Brian Purnell. - Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 353 pages :) illustrations, maps ; - Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) 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".
9780813141848
Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter.
Civil rights movements--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F129.B7 / P87 2013
323.1196/0730747
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings the Congress of racial equality in Brooklyn / [electronic resource] : Brian Purnell. - Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013. - 1 online resource (ix, 353 pages :) illustrations, maps ; - Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) 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".
9780813141848
Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter.
Civil rights movements--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
Electronic books.
F129.B7 / P87 2013
323.1196/0730747