Long Island Historical Journal, Volume 08, Number 2 (Spring 1996)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS -

FEATURE ARTICLES:

The Long Island Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, Part One: The Struggle to Integrate Public Schools by Charles F. Howlett - 145 /

William Sidney Mount: The Influence of Music and the Violin in his Works by Ernest Salem - 166 /

The Quest for a Suffolk County Legislature by Lee E. Koppelman - 177 /

The Theatrical Community of Long Island's South Shore in the Early Twentieth Century by Lorraine Maier Hewins - 188 /

Corona's Little Italy: Past and Present by Frank J. Cavaioli - 199 /

The Mining of Port Jefferson Harbor for Sand and Gravel by Jeffrey Kassner - 213 / REVIEW ESSAYS:

Recovering Victoria Woodhull by Amanda Frisken - 225 (on Lois Beachy Underhill. The Woman Who Ran for President: The Many Lives of Virginia Woodhull) /

Long Island's Poet, America's Bard: Reading Walt Whitman's America by Thomas D. Beal - 235 (on David S. Reynolds. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography) / REVIEWS:

Natalie A. Naylor, ed. Exploring African American History: Long Island and Beyond by William McAdoo - 250 /

Nancy Hyden Woodward. East Hampton: A Town and Its People, 1648-1992 by Sherrill Foster - 253 /

Elly Shodell. Flight of Memory: Long Island’s Aeronautical Past by Roger Seybel - 254 /

Candace Ward, ed. New York City Museum Guide by Florence Ogg - 256 /

Alan Trachtenberg. Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol by Jim Papa - 256 /

Marlene Haresign, et al. Water Mill Celebrating Community: The History of a Long Island Hamlet, 1644-1994 by John A. Strong - 258 /

BOOK NOTES - 261 /

EXHIBITION REVIEW:

The Museums at Stony Brook: “Robert Moses and the Shaping of New York” by Nancy Dawkins - 262 /

COMMUNICATIONS - 263 /

Index of Reviews in the Long Island Historical Journal, Volumes 1 through 8 by Ellen N. Barcel - 265