Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era

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• Civil Rights in New York City i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Civil Rights in New York City xi
• Introduction - Civil Rights in New York City 1
• 1 - To Be a Good American- The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War 10
• 2 - Cops, Schools, and Communism- Local Politics and Global Ideologies—New York City in the 1950S 32
• 3 - [Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny]- Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962 52
• 4 - Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City 77
• 5 - Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign 95
• 6 - The Dead End of Despair- Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice 118
• 7 - The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism 141
• 8 - [Brooklyn College Belongs to Us]- Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City 161
• 9 - Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins's Image 182
• 10 - [One City, One Standard]- The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York 204

• Civil Rights in New York City i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Civil Rights in New York City xi
• Introduction - Civil Rights in New York City 1
• 1 - To Be a Good American- The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War 10
• 2 - Cops, Schools, and Communism- Local Politics and Global Ideologies—New York City in the 1950S 32
• 3 - [Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny]- Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962 52
• 4 - Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City 77
• 5 - Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign 95
• 6 - The Dead End of Despair- Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice 118
• 7 - The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism 141
• 8 - [Brooklyn College Belongs to Us]- Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City 161
• 9 - Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins's Image 182
• 10 - [One City, One Standard]- The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York 204
• Notes 219
• Contributors 267
• Index 269