Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn

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notes Abbreviations Used in the Notes AG-BCORE Arnie Goldwag Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Collection, ARC.002, Brooklyn Historical Society. CORE Congress of Racial Equality, The Papers of the Congress of Racial Equality, 1941–1967 (Sanford, N.C.: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1980). CRBC Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection, Series 1, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Documents, Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch. CRBC-OH Civil Rights in Brooklyn Oral History Collection, Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch. Unless otherwise indicated, all interviews in this collection were conducted by the author. NYWF New York World’s Fair 1964–1965 Corporation Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, box 85, folder A 4.0, “Discriminatory Practices Demonstrations 1964,” New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. NYW-OH New Yorkers at Work, Oral History Collection, Wagner Labor Archives, Tamiment Library, New York University. OH-AL Oral History of the American Left, Oral History Collection, Wagner Labor Archives, Tamiment Library, New York University. RMP Robert Moses Papers, Humanities and Social Science Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, box 126, folders 4/9/1964–4/16/1964 and 4/17/1964–4/24/1964, New York Public Library. SHSW Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Brooklyn Chapter (N.Y.), Mss. 947, Archives Division, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison. 1. Nostalgia, Narrative, and Northern Civil Rights Movement History 1. Clarence Taylor, Knocking at Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison 300 • Notes to Page 3 and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2001), 91–145; Clarence Taylor, Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 95–117; Daniel H. Perlstein, Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism (New York: P. Lang, 2004), 97–113; Diane Ravitch, The Great School Wars: A History of the New York City Public Schools (New York: Basic Books, 1988), 267–79; Craig Steven Wilder, A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 220–22; Jerald E. Podair, The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill– Brownsville Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002), 24–34; Sonia S. Lee and Ande Diaz, “‘I Was the One Percenter’: Manny Diaz and the Beginnings of a Black–Puerto Rican Coalition,” Journal of American Ethnic History 26 (Spring 2007): 65–70; Adina Back, “Up South in New York: The 1950s School Desegregation Struggles” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1997), 402–31. 2. Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, 2nd ed. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), xiii–xxi; some aspects of the master narrative of civil rights movement history are evident in August Meier and Elliott Rudwick, CORE: A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942–1968 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973); William Henry Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America since World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 146–76; Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1965 (New York: Viking Penguin, 1987). Important historiographical essays on the civil rights and black power movements are Steven F. Lawson, “Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement,” American Historical Review 96.2 (1991): 456–71; Peniel Joseph, “The Black Power Movement: A State of the Field,” Journal of American History 96.3 (2009): 751–76; and essays in Steven F. Lawson and Charles M. Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945– 1968, 2nd ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006). 3. Representative works include Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard , Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles outside the South, 1940– 1980 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); James Ralph, Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993); Heather Ann Thompson, Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001); Robert O. Self, American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003); Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003); Matthew Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); Angela Dillard, Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (Ann Notes to Page 4...