Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Civil Rights in New York City 1
5. 1. To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War 10
6. 2. Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies—New York City in the 1950s 32
7. 3. ‘‘Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny’’: Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962 52
8. 4. Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City 77
9. 5. Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign 95
10. 6. The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice 118
11. 7. The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism 141
12. 8. ‘‘Brooklyn College Belongs to Us’’: Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City 161
13. 9. Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins’s Image 182
14. 10. ‘‘One City, One Standard’’: The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani’s New York 204
15. Notes 219
16. Contributors 267
17. Index 269