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Strike the Hammer - The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970 (Hardcover)
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Strike the Hammer - The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970 (Hardcover)
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On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the
Hammer examines the unrest-rebellion by the city's Black community,
rampant police brutality-that would radically change the trajectory
of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response
by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted
in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to
years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren
Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing
extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community,
offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition.
Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and
the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of
the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of
struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill
leads us to consider the social, political, and economic
environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding
generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester.
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