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Contents List of Maps and Illustrations viii 1. Nostalgia, Narrative, and Northern Civil Rights Movement History 1 2. “Pass Them By! Support Your Brothers and Sisters in the South!”: The Origins of Brooklyn CORE 31 3. Why Not Next Door? Battling Housing Discrimination, Case by Case 59 4. Operation Unemployment: Breaking through the Color Line in Local Industries 97 5. Operation Clean Sweep: The Movement to Create a “First-Class Bedford-Stuyvesant” 129 6. “A War for the Minds and Futures of Our Negro and Puerto Rican Children”: The Bibuld Family’s Fight to Desegregate Brooklyn’s Public Schools 171 7. “We Had Struggled in Vain”: Protest for Construction Jobs and Specters of Violence 209 8. “A Gun at the Heart of the City”: The World’s Fair Stall-in and the Decline of Brooklyn CORE 249 Conclusion: “Brooklyn Stands with Selma” 279 Acknowledgments 297 Notes 299 Bibliography 333 Index 347 ...

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