- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
. Boy to Man
. Boy to Man
- Chapter:
- (p.3) 1. Boy to Man
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter details the family and early years of Andrew Wells Cooper, who was born in Brooklyn on August 21, 1927, and also describes the discrimination against blacks in New York City. In August 1945, Andy Cooper celebrated his eighteenth birthday and earned a plumbing diploma from George Westinghouse Vocational High School. Plumbing was dirty yet well-paid work, but Andy was not interested. He had his sights on other careers, which involved the life of the mind.
Keywords: Andrew Cooper, Brooklyn, blacks, discrimination
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates