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

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: Civil Rights in New York City......Page 14
1 To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War......Page 23
2 Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies—New York City in the 1950s......Page 45
3 \"Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny\": Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962......Page 65
4 Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City......Page 90
5 Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign......Page 108
6 The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice......Page 131
7 The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism......Page 154
8 \"Brooklyn College Belongs to Us\": Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City......Page 174
9 Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins’s Image......Page 195
10 \"One City, One Standard\": The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani’s New York......Page 217
Notes......Page 232
List of Contributors......Page 280
B......Page 282
C......Page 285
D......Page 286
G......Page 287
J......Page 288
M......Page 289
O......Page 290
R......Page 291
S......Page 293
T......Page 294
Y......Page 295