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

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
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/05/2015
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.87w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780813165585
ISBN10: 081316558X
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | United States | State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,

About the Author

Brian Purnell is assistant professor of Africana studies at Bowdoin College.

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