*Taylor, Clarence. Civil Rights in New York City from World War II to the Giuliani Era. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. pp. 1-9. S

*Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. pp.1-105. S

*McGruder, Kevin. Race and Real Estate Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. pp. 34-151. S

*Taylor, Clarence. The Black Churches of Brooklyn 1; The Black Churches of Brooklyn 2. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. pp. 67-136. S

*Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. pp.17-190.

*Greenberg, Cheryl. “The Politics of Disorder.” Journal of Urban History 18, no. 4 (1992): 395–441.  E

*Podair, Jerald E. The Strike That Changed New York Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 48-182 S.

^Wilder, Craig Steven. A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. pp. 175-218. S

^Pritchett, Wendell E. Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto 1; Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews, and the Changing Face of the Ghetto 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. pp. 51-174; 221-238. S