Civil rights in New York City : from World War II to the Giuliani era

Publication Data

• Title Civil rights in New York City : from World War II to the Giuliani era
• Contributor Clarence Taylor
• Publisher Fordham University Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Ashland, Ohio
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Civil rights :: New York (State) :: New York
• New York (N.Y.) :: Race relations
• New York (N.Y.)

Civil rights in New York City : from World War II to the Giuliani era. ISBN 9780823232895. Published by Fordham University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.