To Stand and Fight
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To Stand and Fight

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City

  1. 369 pages
  2. English
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To Stand and Fight

The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City

About this book

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. Rather than seeking integration in the abstract, Black New Yorkers demanded first-class citizenship—jobs for all, affordable housing, protection from police violence, access to higher education, and political representation. This powerful local push for economic and political equality met broad resistance, yet managed to win several landmark laws barring discrimination and segregation.

To Stand and Fight demonstrates how Black New Yorkers launched the modern civil rights struggle and left a rich legacy.

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Information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780674019829
9780674010604
eBook ISBN
9780674020955
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History
Yankees
made
$100,000
a
year
in
rentals
and
concessions
from
the
Negro
Leagues.
The
End
Jim
Crow
in
Baseball
Committee
called
for
MacPhail’s
re-
moval
from
the
Mayor’s
Committee,
and
accused
the
committee
of
“doing
nothing
to
remove
this
evil
from
our
city.”
Both
Rickey
and
MacPhail
left
the
committee.
47
Jobs
for
All
35
Cover
of
pamphlet
used
in
Ben
Davis’s
1945
City
Council
campaign.
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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Prologue: The Rise of the Struggle for Negro Rights
  3. 1 Jobs for All
  4. 2 Black Mobilization and Civil Rights Politics
  5. 3 Lynching, Northern Style
  6. 4 Desegregating the Metropolis
  7. 5 Dead Letter Legislation
  8. 6 An Unnatural Division of People
  9. 7 Anticommunism and Civil Rights
  10. 8 The Paradoxical Effects of the Cold War
  11. 9 Racial Violence in the Free World
  12. 10 Lift Every Voice and Vote
  13. 11 Resisting Resegregation
  14. 12 To Stand and Fight
  15. Epilogue: Another Kind of America
  16. Notes
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. Illustration Credits
  19. Index

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