About

Today, 167 Fairview Avenue is a well-kept but unremarkable single-family home on a leafy, quiet street near Staten Island's Clove Lakes Park. A century ago, it was at the center of a racial storm in what was then, and remains, the whitest of New York City's five boroughs. The events unfolding on Fairview Avenue were widely covered at the time, especially in Black-owned newspapers across the country. Since then, the story has not received the full attention it deserves. The proposed documentary comic, Standoff on Fairview Avenue, means to shed greater light on this neglected chapter in history.

The book will cover all these events, culminating in the Brownes' historic victory over housing segregation – based on research from the archives of the NAACP, contemporary press reports and other sources.