- 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
. Tawana Brawley
. Tawana Brawley
- Chapter:
- (p.179) 16. Tawana Brawley
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes the case of Tawana Brawley, which would occupy the New York press, including the City Sun, for most of 1987. Tawana was a fifteen-year-old black girl who was reported missing on November 25, 1987. She was later was found inside a plastic garbage bag, covered in feces. “KKK” and “nigger” were scrawled on her chest and stomach with a marker. Passersby took the incoherent girl to St. Francis Hospital in Poughkeepsie.
Keywords: black girl, teenage girls, City Sun
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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