City son : Andrew W. Cooper's impact on modern-day Brooklyn / Wayne Dawkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawkins, Wayne.

Series:

Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper, Andrew W., 1927-2002.

Cooper, Andrew W.

National Book Committee.

African American journalists.

African Americans.

Social conditions.

Politics and government.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Politics and government--20th century.

African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.

African American journalists--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 340 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]

Contents:

1 Boy to Man 3

2 Jim Crow Brooklyn 18

3 Political Awakening 28

4 Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style 38

5 Cooper versus Power 48

6 Schaefer Suds 60

7 One Man's Opinion 71

8 Trans Urban News Service 87

9 TNS Shuts Down 102

10 Rising Sun 111

11 Bright, Shining Years 120

12 Nineteen Eighty-Six 131

13 Howard Beach 139

14 Arts Beat 150

15 Journalist of the Year 158

16 Tawana Brawley 179

17 Mayoral Race 195

18 Dinkins's First Months 208

19 Crown Heights Riot 222

20 The Breakup 240

21 Setting Sun 252

22 Dusk 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781617032585

1617032581

9781617032592

161703259X

OCLC:

759050046