Book
Fight the power : African Americans and the long history of police brutality in New York City
Publication Information
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
v, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Contents
- The People's voice and police brutality
- The Communist Party and police brutality
- The Nation of Islam and police brutality
- Civil rights, community activists, and police brutality
- Police brutality, the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant Riots, and the national civil rights movement
- John Lindsay, racial politics, and the Civilian Complaint Review Board
- The triumph of a false narrative
- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police brutality
- Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, and the resistance Giuliani
- The campaign to end stop, question, and frisk
- The limits of Mayor de Blasio's police reform agenda
- Conclusion : Where do we go from here?