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    Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

    Published 2010
    Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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    Civil rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani era /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…To be a good American : the New York City Teachers Union and race during the Second World War / Clarence Taylor -- Cops, schools, and communism : local politics and global ideologies--New York City in the 1950's / Barbara Ransby -- "Taxation without sanitation is tyranny" : civil rights struggles over garbage collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the fall of 1962 / Brian Purnell -- Rochdale Village and the rise and fall of integrated housing in New York City / Peter Eisenstadt -- Conservative and liberal opposition to the New York City school-integration campaign / Clarence Taylor -- The dead end of despair : Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice / Daniel Perlstein -- The young lords and the social and structural roots Of late sixties urban radicalism / Johanna Fernandez -- "Brooklyn College belongs to us" : Black students and the transformation of public higher education in New York City / Martha Biondi -- Racial events, diplomacy, and Dinkins's image / Wilbur C. …”
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    This changes everything Occupy Wall Street and the 99% movement /

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: how Occupy Wall Street changes everything / Sarah van Gelder -- How Occupy Wall Street really got started / Andy Kroll -- Enacting the impossible: making decisions by consensus / David Graeber -- Principles of solidarity -- The chills of popular power: the first month of Occupy Wall Street / Marina Sitrin -- Claiming space for diversity at Occupy Wall Street / Hena Ashraf -- Declaration of the occupation of New York City -- No leaders, no violence: what diversity of tactics means for Occupy Wall Street / Nathan Schneider -- The most important thing in the world / Naomi Klein -- How inequality poisons society and equity benefits everyone : an interview with Richard Wilkinson / Brooke Jarvis -- Six ways to liberate main street from Wall Street / David Korten -- A fair tax system: three places to start / Chuck Collins -- How to create living-wage jobs that are good for the planet / Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel -- How to put the rights of people and nature over corporate rights / Thomas Linzey and Jeff Reifman -- Going to the streets to get things done / Ralph Nader -- The occupation of hope: letter to a dead man / Rebecca Solnit -- 10 ways to support the occupy movement / Sarah van Gelder.…”
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