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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings [electronic resource] : the Congress of racial equality in Brooklyn / Brian Purnell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth centuryPublication details: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (ix, 353 pages :) illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9780813141848
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 323.1196/0730747 23
LOC classification:
  • F129.B7 P87 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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".
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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".

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