Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn by Purnell, Brian

Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813141824)

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Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn by Purnell, Brian

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

$60.00
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn by Purnell, Brian

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

$60.00
Format: Hardcover
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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself as one of the most audacious and dynamic chapters in the nation. In Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings, historian Brian Purnell explores the chapter's numerous direct-action protest campaign

Author: Brian Purnell
ISBN-10: 0813141826
ISBN-13: 9780813141824
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2013
Pages: 353
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.37w x 1.20d
By Brian Purnell
By Brian Purnell
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Brian Purnell is assistant professor of Africana studies at Bowdoin College.

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