Interview with Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Upsetting the Applecart
Between 1959 and 1989, New York City blacks and Latinos went from having almost no political power to building a coalition that elevated David Dinkins to mayor. In his new book, Upsetting the Applecart: Black-Latino Coalitions in New York from Protest to Public, Frederick Douglass Opie chronicles this often unrecognized story of grassroots activism and organized…