- 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
. Political Awakening
. Political Awakening
- Chapter:
- (p.28) 3. Political Awakening
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes events between 1960 and 1963. These include lawyer Thomas Russell Jones’ initiation of workshops on political organizing in 1960; Jocelyn’s participation in the neighborhood organizing effort; Andy’s appointment as coordinator of Operation Unemployment, an antidiscrimination crusade; and the challenge to the segregationist status quo posed by Negro citizens and sympathetic whites in New York.
Keywords: Thomas Russell Jones, Jocelyn Cooper, political organizing, Andrew Cooper, segregation
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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