Hearings
Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : United States. Congress. House
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Page : 1710 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Deborah L. Myerson
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Page : 1934 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works
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Page : 3136 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Public works
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Author : Wendell E. Pritchett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226684466
From its founding in the late 1800s through the 1950s, Brownsville, a section of eastern Brooklyn, was a white, predominantly Jewish, working-class neighborhood. The famous New York district nurtured the aspirations of thousands of upwardly mobile Americans while the infamous gangsters of Murder, Incorporated controlled its streets. But during the 1960s, Brownsville was stigmatized as a black and Latino ghetto, a neighborhood with one of the city's highest crime rates. Home to the largest concentration of public housing units in the city, Brownsville came to be viewed as emblematic of urban decline. And yet, at the same time, the neighborhood still supported a wide variety of grass-roots movements for social change. The story of these two different, but in many ways similar, Brownsvilles is compellingly told in this probing new work. Focusing on the interaction of Brownsville residents with New York's political and institutional elites, Wendell Pritchett shows how the profound economic and social changes of post-World War II America affected the area. He covers a number of pivotal episodes in Brownsville's history as well: the rise and fall of interracial organizations, the struggles to deal with deteriorating housing, and the battles over local schools that culminated in the famous 1968 Teachers Strike. Far from just a cautionary tale of failed policies and institutional neglect, the story of Brownsville's transformation, he finds, is one of mutual struggle and frustrated cooperation among whites, blacks, and Latinos. Ultimately, Brownsville, Brooklyn reminds us how working-class neighborhoods have played, and continue to play, a central role in American history. It is a story that needs to be read by all those concerned with the many challenges facing America's cities today.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : United States. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Minorities
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Author : Economic Opportunity Office
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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Page : 864 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Finance, Public
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