Saving Our City: Grassroots Resistance to the Urban Crisis in Brooklyn, New York (1970-1990)

FAIN: FT-285680-22

Amaka Camille Okechukwu
George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)

Writing two chapters of a book that explores the history of Brooklyn residents' grassroots organizing and social life during a period of urban decline.

Saving Our City: Grassroots Resistance to the Urban Crisis in Brooklyn, NY (1970-1990) is a book project that chronicles community organizing and Black social life of Brooklyn residents in the 1970s and 1980s.