Civil Rights in New York City : : From World War II to the Giuliani Era / / Clarence Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Clarence,
• MitwirkendeR: Biondi, Martha,; Eisenstadt, Peter,; Fernandez, Johanna,; Perlstein, Daniel,; Podair, Jerald,; Purnell, Brian,; Ransby, Barbara,; Rich, Wilbur C.,; Taylor, Clarence,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

Since the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern history of the movement. The contributors make clear that civil rights in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Civil Rights in New York City
• 1. To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War
• 2. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies—New York City in the 1950s
• 3. ‘‘Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny’’: Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962
• 4. Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City
• 5. Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign
• 6. The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice
• 7. The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism
• 8. ‘‘Brooklyn College Belongs to Us’’: Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City
• 9. Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins’s Image
• 10. ‘‘One City, One Standard’’: The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani’s New York
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index