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First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hill, Laura Warren, author.

Title: Strike the hammer : the Black freedom struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 / Laura Warren Hill.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020030994 (print) | LCCN 2020030995 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501754258 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501756047 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501754418 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501754425 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—Civil rights—New York (State)—Rochester—History—20th century. | Civil rights movements—New York (State)—Rochester—History—20th century. | Black power—Economic aspects—New York (State)—Rochester. | Black power—New York (State)—Rochester—History—20th century. | Rochester (N.Y.)—Race relations—History—20th century. | Rochester (N.Y.)—Race relations—Economic aspects.

Classification: LCC F129.R79 N44 2021 (print) | LCC F129.R79 (ebook) | DDC 305.8009747/89—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030994

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020030995

Cover photograph: Minister Franklin Florence, center, on the picket line outside the annual stockholder’s meeting of the Eastman Kodak Company, Flemington, NJ, 1967. Kodak Historical Collection, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. Used with permission from Eastman Kodak Company.