Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline - Hardcover

Kahrl, Andrew W.

9780300215144: Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline

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ISBN 10: 0300215142 ISBN 13: 9780300215144

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2018

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"The real success of Kahrl's book rests on his ability to enumerate all the political elements that need to be in place for environmental justice movements to be successful"- N. D. B. Connolly, American Historical Review "Ned Coll is not a name familiar to most persons knowledgeable about the twentieth- century civil rights movement. In Free the Beaches, Andrew W. Kahrl [. . .] makes a compelling case that it ought to be"- J. Michael Martinez, Journal of American History Finalist for the 2019 Connecticut Book Awards, non-fiction category, sponsored by Connecticut Center for the Book "This impressively researched, eloquently written, and artfully constructed book is very important reading for anyone interested in understanding the roots of inequality in the northeast and the nation."-Lily Geismer, author of Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party "An illuminating and damning account of power and privilege in late twentieth-century America."-Colin Fisher, author of Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago "This is a life story brimming with humanity and a great antidote to life under global capitalism, in which privatization is all the rage. Andrew Kahrl's book is sure to have a sorely needed humanizing effect on all its readers."-Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York "In Free the Beaches, Andrew Kahrl not only tells the remarkable story of activist Ned Coll. He also shows that on the Connecticut shore, white liberalism and racial exclusion went hand in hand."-Jason Sokol, author of All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn "What would it mean to broaden our view of the most important fights against segregation from a Montgomery bus to the Connecticut shore? Andrew Kahrl powerfully shows us and it's sobering: the extent Northern white families went to preserve their segregated spaces and the long fight by black and white activists like Ned Coll and Revitalization Corps to open them."-Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

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The story of our separate and unequal America in the making, and one man's fight against it During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of Connecticut, a state that permitted public access to a mere seven miles of its 253-mile shoreline. Nearly all of the state's coast was held privately, for the most part by white, wealthy residents. This book is the first to tell the story of the controversial protester who gathered a band of determined African American mothers and children and challenged the racist, exclusionary tactics of homeowners in a state synonymous with liberalism. Coll's legacy of remarkable successes-and failures-illuminates how our nation's fragile coasts have not only become more exclusive in subsequent decades but also have suffered greater environmental destruction and erosion as a result of that private ownership.

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VerlagYale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum2018
ISBN 10 0300215142
ISBN 13 9780300215144
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