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One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York Yet, fearlessly claiming his rights, he prevailed in a four-decade odyssey that is both the story of one man’s courageous dedication to racial progress and a harbinger of the divisions between
| Title | : | One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (480 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0807043583 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-07 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book AwardWinner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in NonfictionA history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Department’s first black officer. When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he had to fear his racist colleagues as much as criminals. He had to be three times better than his white peers, and many times more resilient. His life was threatened. He was displayed like a circus animal. Yet, fearlessly claiming his rights, he prevailed in a four-decade odyssey that is both the story of one man’s courageous dedication to racial progress and a harbinger of the divisions between police and the people they serve that plague twenty-first-century America. By dint of brains, brawn, and an outsized personality, Battle ro
Arthur Browne has written the first-draft history of New York for more than forty years. As a reporter and editor, he has chronicled six mayors, from Abe Beame through Bill de Blasio, and coauthored I, Koch, a biography of Mayor Ed Koch. Browne presently serves as the Daily News editorial page editor. In 2007, he led a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials that documented the epidemic illnesses afflicting thousands of 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.
Because in the thunderclap it illuminates our past and shakes the ground - if demands you stand your ground in the open field and look upon the reckoning.
Browne doesn't connect his story of Battle to the present day - he doesn't need too. Men like Battle had to do everything right at all times - had to put up with being frozen out, never spoken too, never given a second chance.
A book like this makes me angry - clenched teeth angry - because in 2015, we deny so much of it. Now more than ten years later, Demetrios has again recorded the studio and work in the book, An Eames Primer. For anyone interested in this crucial choice the author has formulated an essential case for the decision to go with Herman Miller.
One of the many highlights of the book is a wonderful collection of color photographs of different objects hanging from the ceiling of the Eames House that is pure aesthetic delight. That is what makes his story and so many like him so important. I can
Browne doesn't connect his story of Battle to the present day - he doesn't need too. Men like Battle had to do everything right at all times - had to put up with being frozen out, never spoken too, never given a second chance.
A book like this makes me angry - clenched teeth angry - because in 2015, we deny so much of it. Now more than ten years later, Demetrios has again recorded the studio and work in the book, An Eames Primer. For anyone interested in this crucial choice the author has formulated an essential case for the decision to go with Herman Miller.
One of the many highlights of the book is a wonderful collection of color photographs of different objects hanging from the ceiling of the Eames House that is pure aesthetic delight. That is what makes his story and so many like him so important. I can
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