"South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. Resistant to government regulations and corporate encroachment, these men lived in a closed, internally policed world that was deeply hostile to outsiders. As a young...

"During most of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the modern United States. Within a few square miles were the headquarters of networks like NBC and CBS, the editorial offices of book and magazine publishers, major newspapers, and advertising and design agencies. Every day tens of thousands of writers, editors, artists, performers, technicians,...

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles regarding labor union discrimination against blacks, Bortherhood of Locomotive Trainmen; integration of NYC subway workforce; New York bus strike; employment discrimination, NYC Dept. of Welfare; employment opportunities for blacks in defense industries; NAACP assistance to applicants for positions in broadcasting industry.