The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York City

by Christopher Hayes

Book Overview

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a city that viewed itself as liberal. A week of upheaval ensued, including looting and property damage as well as widespread police violence, in what would be the first of the 1960s urban uprisings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181876
• ISBN13: 9780231181877
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"