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Several monographs on [this subject] have been written, but none rival this one in terms of breadth or depth. -Peter B. Levy, York College Clarence Taylor long has been recognized as the most important historian of this nation's most important city: New York. Now he has assembled a veritable Dream Team of scholars who contribute their own unique expertise in shedding light on how and why Gotham engaged the critically profound question of Civil Rights in the way it did. This book, as a consequence, is a monumental contribution to the history ofCivil Rights, African-American History, Urban History, Latino History and--most of all--the history of New York City.-Gerald Horne I've been waiting for such a book for years. Anyone interested in postwar New York or the modern civil rights movement needs to read this book. The history of the black freedom struggle looks much different when we widen our gaze from the Cradle of the Confederacy to the home of Ellis Island.-Jeanne Theoharis Several monographs on [this subject] have been written, but none rival this one in terms of breadth or depth.-Peter B. Levy Attempts to provide some balance through 10 academic essays that cast light on struggles between blacks and organized labor, civil rights and the cold war, discrimination that extended even to garbage collection, and the competing visions of Mayors David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani. -Sam Roberts, New York Times A sober, practical, and serious-minded collection, highly recommended.- The Midwest Book Review

<br>Clarence Taylor long has been recognized as the most important historian of this nation's most important city: New York. Now he has assembled a veritable Dream Team of scholars who contribute their own unique expertise in shedding light on how and why Gotham engaged the critically profound question of Civil Rights in the way it did. This book, as a consequence, is a monumental contribution to the history ofCivil Rights, African-American History, Urban History, Latino History and--most of all--the history of New York City.-Gerald Horne<p><br>I've been waiting for such a book for years. Anyone interested in postwar New York or the modern civil rights movement needs to read this book. The history of the black freedom struggle looks much different when we widen our gaze from the Cradle of the Confederacy to the home of Ellis Island.-Jeanne Theoharis<p><br>Several monographs on [this subject] have been written, but none rival this one in terms of breadth or depth.-Peter B. Levy<p><br> Attempts to provide some balance through 10 academic essays that cast light on struggles between blacks and organized labor, civil rights and the cold war, discrimination that extended even to garbage collection, and the competing visions of Mayors David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani. -Sam Roberts, New York Times<p><br>A sober, practical, and serious-minded collection, highly recommended.- The Midwest Book Review<p><br>

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Clarence Taylor is Professor of History and Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College and Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His book Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Academic Freedom, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

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