Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings (eBook)

The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn

Brian Purnell (Autor)

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2013
368 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-4183-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself as one of the most audacious and dynamic chapters in the nation.In Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings, historian Brian Purnell explores the chapter's numerous direct-action protest campaigns for economic justice and social equality. The group's tactics evolved from pickets and sit-ins for jobs and housing to more dramatic action, such as dumping trash on the steps of Borough Hall to protest inadequate garbage collection. The Brooklyn chapter's lengthy record of activism, however, yielded only modest progress. Its members eventually resorted to desperate measures, such as targeting the opening day of the 1964 World's Fair with a traffic-snarling "e;stall-in."e; After that moment, its interracial, nonviolent phase was effectively over. By 1966, the group was more aligned with the black power movement, and a new Brooklyn CORE emerged.Drawing from archival sources and interviews with individuals directly involved in the chapter, Purnell explores how people from diverse backgrounds joined together, solved internal problems, and earned one another's trust before eventually becoming disillusioned and frustrated. Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings adds to our understanding of the broader civil rights movement by examining how it was implemented in an iconic northern city, where interracial activists mounted a heroic struggle against powerful local forms of racism.

Autor

lt;P>Brian Purnell is assistant professor of Africana studies at Bowdoin College.

Inhalt

Nostalgia, Narrative and Northern Civil Rights Movement HistoryPass Them By! Support the South! -- The Origins of Brooklyn COREWhy Not Next Door? Battling Housing Discrimination, Case by CaseOperation Unemployment: Breaking Through the Color Line in Local IndustriesOperation Cleansweep: The Movement to Create a "First Class Bedford-Stuyvesant"A War for the Minds of Our Negro and Puerto Rican Children: The Bibuld Family's Fight to Desegregate Brooklyn's Public SchoolsWe Struggled in Vain: Protest for Construction Jobs and Specters of ViolenceA Gun to the Heart of the City: The World's Fair Stall-in and the Decline of Brooklyn COREBrooklyn Stands With Selma

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Reihe/Serie: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w halftones, 8 maps, 7 tables
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1960s • Brooklyn, New York • civil rights leaders • Civil Rights Leadership • Civil Rights Movement • Congress of Racial Equality • employment discrimination • Grassroots activism • housing integration • Interracial • Interracial Communication • Nonviolence • nonviolent protest • Peaceful protest • Racial Justice • Racial segregation • school integration • Social Activism
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-4183-4 / 0813141834
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-4183-1 / 9780813141831