Historic Brownsville
Author: Carl S. Chilton
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 1935377159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of Brownsville, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author: Carl S. Chilton
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 93
ISBN-13: 1935377159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated history of Brownsville, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author: Ruby A. Wooldridge
Publisher:
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780898651515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wendell E. Pritchett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002-02-15
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0226684466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Pino Shah
Publisher: ArtByPino.com
Published: 2020-03-22
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 1948049058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History reveals the heritage and history of Texas’s southernmost city as told by its buildings. Outstanding architectural images by Pino Shah show the influence of diverse cultures and regional styles that have shaped the border city’s built environment since 1841. Eileen Mattei weaves architectural details and Brownsville history into a narrative that illustrates how buildings mirror the people, the place and the times. Here is a new perspective for looking at more than 100 architecturally significant buildings that are often also historically and culturally important.
Author: John Downing Weaver
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780890965283
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book that prompted congressional action to rectify a U.S. president's shocking act of racism.
Author: John Henry Brown
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
Published:
Total Pages: 1202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anthony Knopp
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-12
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9780738578583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Charro Days in Brownsville boast a rich history.
Author: Rudy Garcia
Publisher:
Published: 2020-01-08
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781943267736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the shrimping industry in the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas coast. Contains interviews with shrimpers from the heyday of the industry, 1940s - 1970s.
Author: William Baker
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9781943267927
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The true story of the disgrace of a black US Army battalion, wrongfully accused of a crime in Brownsville, TX, in 1906.
Author: Milo Kearney
Publisher: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
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