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To be a good American: the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism: local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny": civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us": Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. Rich -- "One city, one standard": the struggle for equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York / Jerald Podair. |
