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Item specifics
- Condition
- Modified Item
- Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Region
- American Northeast
- Country
- USA
- Title
- One Righteous Man
- Type
- Bibliography
- Integration
- Police Force
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- Age Level
- Adults, Young Adults
- City
- New York
- Era
- 1950s
- Special Attributes
- First Printing, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780807012604
- EAN
- 9780807012604
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807012602
ISBN-13
9780807012604
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204310867
Product Key Features
Book Title
One Righteous Man : Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Discrimination & Race Relations, Law Enforcement, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-043794
Reviews
"The magnificent--and moving--story of the first black New York City cop . . . struggling valiantly for dignity in a world more often interested in his marginalization (or worse) . . . forming a tragic but ultimately heroic understanding of the inner workings of the greatest city on earth." --Ken Burns, "The magnificent--and moving--story of the first black New York City cop . . . struggling valiantly for dignity in a world more often interested in his marginalization (or worse) . . . forming a tragic but ultimately heroic understanding of the inner workings of the greatest city on earth." --Ken Burns " One Righteous Man is one righteous biography--at times chilling in its account of Samuel Battle's ordeal as a key black pioneer in Manhattan but ultimately inspiring as a record of his indomitable spirit. Browne's book is also timely today as a commentary on the tangled webs of ethnicity and racism in the evolution of 'New York's Finest.'" --Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes, "An especially timely book" -- Kirkus Reviews "The magnificent--and moving--story of the first black New York City cop...struggling valiantly for dignity in a world more often interested in his marginalization (or worse)...forming a tragic but ultimately heroic understanding of the inner workings of the greatest city on earth." --Ken Burns " One Righteous Man is one righteous biography--at times chilling in its account of Samuel Battle's ordeal as a key black pioneer in Manhattan but ultimately inspiring as a record of his indomitable spirit. Browne's book is also timely today as a commentary on the tangled webs of ethnicity and racism in the evolution of 'New York's Finest.'" --Arnold Rampersad, author of The Life of Langston Hughes "It is just over 100 years since "Big Sam" Battle, the son of freed slaves, set out on his first all-night patrol as New York's first black cop. He had threaded the needle of discrimination. Now he had to prove himself against the scorn and silence of white cops in his precinct and the simmering tensions of nightstick racism. Arthur Browne's biography of Battle is history with the chill off, but it's as relevant as today's headlines from Missouri to Manhattan and tomorrow's headlines from anywhere in America. You'd expect a newspaper editor with a Pulitzer to be up to speed on the news, and nobody knows New York better. What's impressive about Browne's book is how scrupulous he is in drawing on an unpublished biography by Langston Hughes while contributing his own vivid portrait of a hero up against mobsters, corrupt politicians and immanent violence. The note pinned over Big Sam's bed when he got home one night had a bullet hole in it and a message in block caps: "Nigger, if you don't quit, this is what will happen to you." He stayed for forty years, a model for our times, too." --Harold Evans, author of The American Century
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
363.2092 B
Table Of Content
PREFACE The Heart of One Righteous Man ONE Quest TWO Struggle THREE Betrayed FOUR Command FIVE Respect SIX Forgotten APPRECIATIONS NOTES INDEX
Synopsis
A 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. As New York City's first African American cop, Samuel Battle had to fear his racist colleagues as much as the criminal element and to navigate the politics of Tammany Hall and of powe, A 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. As New York City's first African American cop, Samuel Battle had to fear his racist colleagues as much as the criminal element and to navigate the politics of Tammany Hall and of powerful mobsters. When Battle left the NYPD decades later, he was decorated and revered, having hobnobbed with the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Booker T. Washington, and dozens of other luminaries. During that time, he helped integrate the city's fire department and its armed forces Battle commissioned a biography to be written by none other than Langston Hughes, but that book has remained entirely unpublished. Using Hughes's manuscript and his own archival research, prize-winning journalist Arthur Browne has created a fascinating narrative of this unheralded figure in the fight for civil rights and a riveting account of the battle for influence in twentieth-century New York., Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book Award Winner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in Nonfiction A 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 rode the forward wave of African American history in New York. He circulated among renowned turn-of-the-century entertainers and writers. He weathered threatening hostility as a founding citizen of black Harlem. He served as "godfather" to the regiment of black soldiers that won glory in World War I as the "Hellfighters of Harlem." He befriended sports stars like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Sugar Ray Robinson, and he bonded with legendary tap dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Along the way, he mentored an equally smart, equally tough young man in a still more brutal fight to integrate the New York Fire Department. At the close of his career, Battle looked back proudly on the against-all-odd journey taken by a man who came of age as the son of former slaves in the South. He had navigated the corruption of Tammany Hall, the treachery of gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, the anything-goes era of Prohibition, the devastation of the Depression, and the race riots that erupted in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. By then he was a trusted aide to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and a friend to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Realizing that his story was the story of race in New York across the first half of the century, Battle commissioned a biography to be written by none other than Langston Hughes, the preeminent voice of the Harlem Renaissance. But their eighty-thousand-word collaboration failed to find a publisher, and has remained unpublished since. Using Hughes's manuscript, which is quoted liberally throughout this book, as well as his own archival research and interviews with survivors, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Arthur Browne has created an important and compelling social history of New York, revealed a fascinating episode in the life of Langston Hughes, and delivered the riveting life and times of a remarkable and unjustly forgotten man, setting Samuel Battle where he belongs in the pantheon of American civil rights pioneers.
LC Classification Number
HV7911.B38B76 2015
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