- 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
. Bright, Shining Years
. Bright, Shining Years
- Chapter:
- (p.120) 11. Bright, Shining Years
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes stories covered by the City Sun from 1984 to 1985. These include the paper’s crusade for the family of Eleanor Bumpurs, a sixty-seven-year-old grandmother who was shot and killed by police after she resisted being evicted from her Bronx apartment; the paper’s strong dissatisfaction with the policies of mayor Ed Koch; Cooper’s doubts about the credibility of mayoral candidate Herman D. (Denny) Farrell, a black assemblyman from Manhattan; and the case against Transit Authority police in the death of Michael Stewart, a twenty-five-year-old graffiti artist arrested for allegedly defacing a subway station at Fourteenth Street and First Avenue.
Keywords: City Sun, weekly newspapers, Eleanor Bumpurs, Ed Koch, Herman D. Farrell, Transit Authority, Michael Stewart
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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