To Stand and Fight : the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City / Martha Biondi.

The story of the civil rights movement typically begins with the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and culminates with the 1965 voting rights struggle in Selma. But as Martha Biondi shows, a grassroots struggle for racial equality in the urban North began a full ten years before the rise of the movemen...

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