"Ready to shoot and do shoot": Black working-class self-defense and community politics in harlem, New York, during the 1920s

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 757-774

  King, Shannon ^a  

^a 931 College Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

Community politics; Harlem; Police brutality; Self defense

Indexed keywords

POLICE FORCE; POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIAL CONFLICT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VIOLENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CIVIL DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CIVIL DISORDERS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; POLICE; RACE RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RIOTS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; VIOLENCE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054807298     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: 15526771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144211413234     Document Type: Article

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