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

Description: Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn, Paperback by Purnell, Brian, ISBN 081316558X, ISBN-13 9780813165585, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

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.

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Book Title: Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings : the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn

Number of Pages: 368 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Year: 2015

Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History

Item Weight: 17.6 Oz

Author: Brian Purnell

Item Length: 9 in

Book Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century Ser.

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback