- 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
. Cooper versus Power
. Cooper versus Power
- Chapter:
- (p.48) 5. Cooper versus Power
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes the suit filed by Andrew W. Cooper against New York political leaders on June 23, 1966, in U.S. District Court (Eastern) in Brooklyn. The suit aimed to prevent an election in black Brooklyn until the congressional district lines were redrawn. Cooper alleged that New York State leaders had disenfranchised African Americans. Unlike the South, where black citizens were rebuffed through threats of violence, intimidation, or chicanery such as poll taxes and “intelligence tests,” northern power brokers diluted black New Yorker’s voting power.
Keywords: Andy Cooper, lawsuits, New York power brokers, Brooklyn, elections, congressional district lines
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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