FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE GIULIANI ERA -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Civil Rights in New York City -- To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War -- Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologies- New York City in the 1950s -- ''Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny'': Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962 -- Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City -- Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign -- The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice -- The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism -- ''Brooklyn College Belongs to Us'': Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City -- Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins's Image -- ''One City, One Standard'': The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.