Table of Contents

Preface: War Without Bloodshed?

1. Introduction: When the Colored began Moving In, we Knew our Neighborhood was in Trouble.

2. The Babylon of Black Togetherness.

3. In 1962 Richard C. Lee was the Civil Rights Leader in New Haven.

4. A New Day in Babylon.

5. There is a Riot Going on.

6. Enter the Black Panthers.

7. Servants of the People.

8. No Haven.

Bibliography.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

About the Author

Yohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He is the author of A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present: Documents and Essays (2002). He also served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Teaching Civil Rights. He has two forthcoming books from Duke University Press on the Black Panther Party, co-edited with Jama Lazerow of Wheelock College, and is finishing a single-authored book entitled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment and Jim Crow Justice 1865-1930.