Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Bro

Description: Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings by Brian Purnell 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 chapters numerous direct-action protest campaigns for economic justice and social equality. The groups 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 chapters 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 Worlds Fair with a traffic-snarling "stall-in." 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 anothers 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. Author Biography Brian Purnell is assistant professor of Africana studies at Bowdoin College, USA. Table of Contents Nostalgia, Narrative and Northern Civil Rights Movement History Pass Them By! Support the South! - The Origins of Brooklyn CORE Why Not Next Door? Battling Housing Discrimination, Case by Case Operation Unemployment: Breaking Through the Color Line in Local Industries Operation Cleansweep: The Movement to Create a "First Class Bedford-Stuyvesant" A War for the Minds of Our Negro and Puerto Rican Children: The Bibuld Familys Fight to Desegregate Brooklyns Public Schools We Struggled in Vain: Protest for Construction Jobs and Specters of Violence A Gun to the Heart of the City: The Worlds Fair Stall-in and the Decline of Brooklyn CORE Brooklyn Stands With Selma Review "The author [...] captures the readers attention, looking at the ups and downs of [the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn] with an emphasis on its structural highs and lows, triumphs and areas of weakness, while introducing us to leaders and activists who were prominently fighting for social justice in the heart of Brooklyn, New York." -- Spectrum" Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings is a major contribution to the field of modern American history and the history of the civil rights movement. Purnell does a wonderful job highlighting the role that the Brooklyn branch of the Congress of Racial Equality played in New Yorks civil rights movement, from housing, employment, garbage services, school integration, the construction industry, and the protest at the 1964 Worlds Fair." -- Clarence Taylor, author of Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights and the New York City Teaches Union"A major contribution to our understanding of the black freedom movement." -- Law and History Review"If you are going to read one book of American history this year, read this. Brian Purnell shows us the racial caste system of Jim Crow New York and demonstrates how a movement grew in Brooklyn around jobs, housing, schools and public services at the same time as the much more well-covered Southern civil rights struggle. Based on years of careful research, Purnell demonstrates that New York liberalism wasnt so very liberal when it came to movements in its own backyard. Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings will fundamentally change how we understand the civil rights movement as born not just in the voting denials, exploitative sharecropping and segregated buses of the South but in the segregated hiring, racial steering and unequal sanitation services of the North." -- Jeanne Theoharis, author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"Purnells analysis of Northern racism and segregation helps to fill the present void in the discussion of the national Civil Rights Movement. Anyone hoping to engender a full discussion of the legacy of the movement needs to focus beyond the Southern fight against Jim Crow to encompass the Northern struggle and the many divergent philosophies and voices present therein. Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings provides an accessible entry point into several historical fields -- urban, race, politics -- and humanizes a struggle, which at its heart, is about humanity." -- New York History Review Quote "Winner of the 2012 Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize given by the New York State Historical Association" -- Details ISBN0813141826 Author Brian Purnell Language English Year 2013 ISBN-10 0813141826 ISBN-13 9780813141824 Format Hardcover Short Title FIGHTING JIM CROW IN THE COUNT Media Book Imprint The University Press of Kentucky Subtitle The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn Place of Publication Lexington Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2013-05-01 AU Release Date 2013-05-01 NZ Release Date 2013-05-01 US Release Date 2013-05-01 Pages 368 Publication Date 2013-05-01 Publisher The University Press of Kentucky Series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century DEWEY 323.11960730747 Illustrations 21 b&w photos, 8 maps, 7 tables Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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