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  • Book Review

Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970

  • By Michael Brown
  • Rochester Institute of Technology

Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 by Laura Warren Hill. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021. Get your copy.

In February 1963, Baden Street Settlement in northeast Rochester was the site of a mass meeting to protest discriminatory, bru...

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