Fight the Power African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City

"Taylor provides an essential history of the now, showing how current struggles for racial justice have emerged out of a long history of police abuse, protest, and inadequate reforms." - Alex Vitale,author of The End of Policing "The time is ripe for this kind of book; and this history delivers the most informed and reasonable voice to an unprecedented and eager public readership. I can hardly wait to teach this book in my lectures and seminars in African American, urban and ethnic history and public policy. The American reading public has been presented with a precious gift by Professor Clarence Taylor: Bravo!" - Komozi Woodard,author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics "This timely and urgent account of the long reign of police terror inflicted on Black New Yorkers also tells a heroic and largely unheralded story of resistance. In fighting for justice, Black New Yorkers have sought a fundamental redefinition of policing. Clarence Taylor's book is needed now more than ever." - Martha Biondi,author of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City "This well-researched, well-told book provides thoughtful context for the current American reckoning with police brutality." (Publishers Weekly) "Clarence Taylor offers a judicious history of black New Yorkers' efforts to confront police brutality since the 1940s." (Journal of American Ethnic History) "Fight the Power offers a clear sense of the intractable nature of anti-Black police violence and harassment in New York over the span of generations and of some of the ways that Black folks pushed reform of that system." (The Journal of African American History)