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entertainment capital of Los Angeles. For Blacks, cities represent both their
greatest successes—the rise of urban Black politicians and a growing Black middle
class—and their greatest failure—the imploding, alienated Black underclass.
Three decades have passed since Martin Luther King moved into a ghetto apartment
in Chicago and brought the civil rights movement to America's cities.
Struggle as they may, Blacks and Jews still remain caught in what King called an
"inescapable web of mutuality."
Notes
1. The role of Jews in early reform movements and their transformation into
opponents of discrimination is discussed in an essay by Oscar Handlin in Nathan
Glazer, Joseph L. Blau, Herman D. Stein, Oscar and Mary F. Handlin, The
Characteristics of American Jews (New York, 1965).
2. Hasia Diner, In the Almost Promised Land (Westport, CT, 1977), pp. 217—20.
3. Ibid; pp. 36—81. Diner cites extensive quotes from the Forward, including
those cited here.
4. Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression (Urbana, IL, 1983),
pp. 321-27.
5. Roi Ottley, New World A-Coming (Boston, 1943), pp. 124-26.
6. Ibid., pp. 114-15.
7. See Jonathan Kaufman, Broken Alliance, rev. ed. (New York, 1988), p. 39.
8. "Negroes and Jews: The New Challenge to Pluralism," reprinted in Nathan
Glazer, Ethnic Dilemmas: 1964-1982 (Cambridge, MA, 1983), pp. 29-43.
9. The history of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict is recounted in Jonathan
Kaufman, Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times Between Blacks and Jews in America (New
York, 1994), pp. 127-64.
10. The growth and development of Chicago's ghettos are described in Arnold
Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940—1960 (New York,
1983).
11. Kaufman, Broken Alliance, pp. 187-88.
12. "The Mugging of New York," The New Republic, July 30, 1977.
13. The story of the Crown Heights riot is recounted in Kaufman, Broken
Alliance, pp. 286-89.