Title Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn / Brian Purnell

Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource Series Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century. Contents Nostalgia, narrative, and northern civil rights movement history -- "Pass them by! Support your brothers and sisters in 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 clean sweep : The movement to create a "first-class Bedford-Stuyvesant" -- "A war for the minds and futures of our negro and Puerto Rican children" : The Bibuld family's fight to desegregate Brooklyn's public schools -- "We had struggled in vain" : Protest for construction jobs and specters of violence -- "A gun at the heart of the city" : The World's Fair stall-in and the decline of Brooklyn CORE -- Conclusion : "Brooklyn stands with Selma." Summary 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 this book, a historian 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 "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, the author explores how people from diverse backgrounds joined together, solved internal problems, and earned one another's trust before eventually becoming disillusioned and frustrated. This book aims at adding to readers' 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter. SUBJECT Congress of Racial Equality. Brooklyn Chapter fast Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. African Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Race relations SUBJECT Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813141848 0813141842 1299533523 9781299533523 0813141834 9780813141831 0813142601 9780813142609

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