The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231181868
ISBN13:9780231181860
Release Date:October 2021
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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