Historic Brownsville
Title | Historic Brownsville PDF eBook |
Author | Carl S. Chilton |
Publisher | HPN Books |
Pages | 93 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1935377159 |
An illustrated history of Brownsville, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Brownsville, a Pictorial History
Title | Brownsville, a Pictorial History PDF eBook |
Author | Ruby A. Wooldridge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1982-01-01 |
Genre | Brownsville (Tex.) |
ISBN | 9780898651515 |
Brownsville, Brooklyn
Title | Brownsville, Brooklyn PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell E. Pritchett |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2002-02-15 |
Genre | 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.
The Brownsville Raid
Title | The Brownsville Raid PDF eBook |
Author | John Downing Weaver |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780890965283 |
The book that prompted congressional action to rectify a U.S. president's shocking act of racism.
Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas
Title | Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | John Henry Brown |
Publisher | Jazzybee Verlag |
Pages | 812 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3849674452 |
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Charro Days in Brownsville
Title | Charro Days in Brownsville PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Knopp |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2009-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738578583 |
The Charro Days in Brownsville boast a rich history.
Hart's History and Directory of the Three Towns, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville ...
Title | Hart's History and Directory of the Three Towns, Brownsville, Bridgeport, West Brownsville ... PDF eBook |
Author | John Percy Hart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 702 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | Bridgeport (Pa.) |
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