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Author : Dominic J. Capeci
Release : 1977
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Harlem Riot of 1943 by : Dominic J. Capeci
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Author : Nathan H. Brandt
Release : 1996-12-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Harlem At War by : Nathan H. Brandt
Download or read book Harlem At War written by Nathan H. Brandt. This book was released on 1996-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the spring of 1943 more than a half million blacks were in the U.S. Army, but only 79,000 of them were overseas. Most were repeating the experience of their fathers in World War I - serving chiefly in labor battalions. Domestically, clashes between blacks and whites vying for the same jobs in boomtown defense-plant cities and the wretched treatment of northern black draftees in the South - where Jim Crow discrimination was prevalent - were all too common. In Harlem at War, Nat Brandt vividly recreates the desolation of black communities during World War II and examines the nation-wide conditions that led up to the Harlem riot of 1943. Wherever black troops were trained or stationed, Brandt explains, "rage surfaced frequently, was suppressed, but was not extinguished." Using eyewitness accounts, he describes the rage Harlemites felt, the discrimination and humiliation they shared with blacks across the country. The collective anger erupted one day in Harlem when a young black soldier was shot by a white police officer. The riot, in which six blacks were killed, seven hundred injured, and six arrested, became a turning point in America's race relations and a precursor to the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
Author : Dominic J. Capeci
Release : 1977
Genre : African Americans
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Author : Rachel Keegan
Release : 2001
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Articulate Violence by : Rachel Keegan
Download or read book Articulate Violence written by Rachel Keegan. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Smith
Release : 2018
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Revolting New York by : Neil Smith
Download or read book Revolting New York written by Neil Smith. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For many, the appearance of Occupy Wall Street seemed so sudden and so surprising it seemed to have come out of nowhere. But Occupy Wall Street was in some sense not unusual: it was part and parcel of a long history of riot, revolt, uprising, and sometimes even revolution that has shaped the city and the larger histories and geographies of which it is part. The history of New York is, in significant part, a history of revolt. Many citizens, activists, and scholars know pieces of that history, but nowhere has it been put together in something close to its entirety. The effect is that each revolt or uprising seems almost sui generis, always surprising, disconnected from both its long- and near-term history and social geography. Revolting New York brings together the historical geography of revolt in New York in its fullness, from the earliest uprisings of the Munsee against Dutch occupation of Manhattan to Occupy. All in a style accessible to a broad as well as academic audience The book will show that there is a continuous, if varied and punctuated, history of rebellion in New York that is at least as vital as the more standard histories of formal politics, planning, economic growth and restructuring that largely define our consciousness of New York's evolution and the structuring of life within it" --
