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• catalog abstract ""The story of the modern civil rights movement typically begins in the South with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle against racial segregation and discrimination began over a decade earlier in New York City. This story is an essential first chapter in the history of the American civil rights movement. It also fills a critical gap in our understanding of the causes of the urban rebellions that erupted in the mid-1960s, just as the southern civil rights movement was achieving major victories." "Rather than integration, Black New Yorkers sought justice. Biondi reveals how movement leaders mobilized to make the war against fascism a launching pad for a postwar struggle against white supremacy, and organized to gain the fruits of first-class citizenship - good jobs, modern housing, higher education, Black representation in government, due process of law, and equal access to all places of public accomodation. This powerful push for social, economic, and political equality met fierce resistance from a range of people and institutions with deep investments in white privilege, from unions to realtors to politicians. Despite these obstacles, Black activists won the first law since Reconstruction barring discrimination in private employment, and several other landmark laws barring discrimination and segregation in education, housing, and public accomodations." "This burgeoning northern civil rights movement was dramatically disrupted by the anticommunist crusade, which silenced its more radical leaders and their demands. Nevertheless, as this book reveals, in the decade after World War II Black New Yorkers launched the modern civil rights struggle, and bequeathed a robust and expansive agenda that promoted the rights and dignity of the poor and disfranchised across the city, the nation, and the world."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12706346.
• catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951.".
• catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Race relations.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""The story of the modern civil rights movement typically begins in the South with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle against racial segregation and discrimination began over a decade earlier in New York City. This story is an essential first chapter in the history of the American civil rights movement. It also fills a critical gap in our understanding of the causes of the urban rebellions that erupted in the mid-1960s, just as the southern civil rights movement was achieving major victories." "Rather than integration, Black New Yorkers sought justice. Biondi reveals how movement leaders mobilized to make the war against fascism a launching pad for a postwar struggle against white supremacy, and organized to gain the fruits of first-class citizenship - good jobs, modern housing, higher education, Black representation in government, due process of law, and equal access to all places of public accomodation. This powerful push for social, economic, and political equality met fierce resistance from a range of people and institutions with deep investments in white privilege, from unions to realtors to politicians. Despite these obstacles, Black activists won the first law since Reconstruction barring discrimination in private employment, and several other landmark laws barring discrimination and segregation in education, housing, and public accomodations." "This burgeoning northern civil rights movement was dramatically disrupted by the anticommunist crusade, which silenced its more radical leaders and their demands. Nevertheless, as this book reveals, in the decade after World War II Black New Yorkers launched the modern civil rights struggle, and bequeathed a robust and expansive agenda that promoted the rights and dignity of the poor and disfranchised across the city, the nation, and the world."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-333) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "360 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "To stand and fight.".
• catalog identifier "0674010604 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "To stand and fight.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "To stand and fight.".
• catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) History 1898-1951.".
• catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
• catalog subject "323/.09747/109045 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "F128.9.N4 B56 2003".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "To stand and fight : the struggle for civil rights in postwar New York City / Martha Biondi.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".