To Stand and Fight The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City

Name: To Stand and Fight The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City
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ISBN: 9780674019829

ISBN-10: 0674019822

ISBN-13: 9780674019829

Edition: 2003

Authors: Martha Biondi

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The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle for racial equality in the urban North began a full ten years before the rise of the movement in the South. This story is an essential first chapter, not only to the southern movement that followed, but to the riots that erupted in northern and western cities just as the civil rights movement was achieving major victories. Biondi tells the story of African Americans who mobilized to make the war against fascism a launching pad for a postwar struggle against white supremacy at home.…

Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.94" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Martha Biondi is Associate Professor of African-American Studies and History at Northwestern University.



Prologue: The Rise of the Struggle for Negro Rights



Jobs for All



Black Mobilization and Civil Rights Politics



Lynching, Northern style



Desegregating the metropolis



Dead Letter Legislation



An Unnatural Division of People



Anticommunism and Civil Rights



The Paradoxical Effects of the Cold War



Racial Violence in the Free World



Lift Every Voice and Vote



Resisting Resegregation



To Stand and Fight


Epilogue: Another Kind of America


Notes


Acknowledgments


Illustration Credits


Index