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City Son: Andrew W. Cooper's Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn

Wayne Dawkins

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9781617032585

Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014

DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032585.001.0001

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. Tawana Brawley

. Tawana Brawley

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(p.179) 16. Tawana Brawley
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City Son
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Wayne Dawkins

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University Press of Mississippi
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781617032585.003.0016

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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