TY  - BOOK
AU  - Purnell,Brian
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: the Congress of racial equality in Brooklyn 
T2  - Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century
SN  - 9780813141848
AV  - F129.B7 P87 2013
U1  - 323.1196/0730747 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lexington, Kentucky
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Congress of Racial Equality
KW  - Brooklyn Chapter
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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"
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813141848/
ER  -