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020 _a9780813141848
020 _z9780813141824 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z0813141826
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aF129.B7
_bP87 2013
082 0 0 _a323.1196/0730747
_223
100 1 _aPurnell, Brian,
_d1978-
245 1 0 _aFighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe Congress of racial equality in Brooklyn /
_cBrian Purnell.
260 _aLexington, Kentucky :
_bUniversity Press of Kentucky,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (ix, 353 pages :)
_billustrations, maps ;
490 0 _aCivil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-345) and index.
505 0 _aNostalgia, 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".
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
651 0 _aNew York (N.Y.)
_xRace relations
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
_xRace relations
_xHistory
_y20th century.
610 2 0 _aCongress of Racial Equality.
_bBrooklyn Chapter.
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights
_zNew York (State)
_zNew York
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813141848/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32497
_d32497