The Harlem Uprising
Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a city that viewed itself as liberal. A week of upheaval ensued, including looting and property damage as well as widespread police violence, in what would be the first of the 1960s urban uprisings.Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, from the city's history of racial segregation in education, housing, and employment to the ways in which the police both neglected…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-54384-2
- EAN: 9780231543842
- Produktnummer: 35410270
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Plattform: EPUB
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