Civil rights in New York City : from World War II to the Giuliani era / / edited by Clarence Taylor.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Taylor, Clarence.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: ix, 282 p.

Table of Contents

• To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor
• Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby
• "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell
• Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt
• Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor
• The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein
• The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez
• "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi
• Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. Rich
• "One city, one standard" : the struggle for equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York / Jerald Podair.