Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn / Brian Purnell.

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Main Author: Purnell, Brian, 1978-
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2013.
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Congress of Racial Equality. > Brooklyn Chapter.
African Americans > Civil rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:ix, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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."