The strike that changed New York : blacks, whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis /

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On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Podair, Jerald E., 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers > New York (State) > New York.
Discrimination in education > New York (State) > New York.
Grèves et lock-out > Enseignants > New York (État) > New York.
Discrimination en éducation > New York (État) > New York.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Discrimination in education
Strikes and lockouts > Teachers
New York (State) > New York
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Two New Yorks : New York City, 1945-1965
  • The rise of community
  • "Black" values, "white" values : race and culture in New York City during the 1960s
  • The Ocean Hill-Brownsville community control experiment
  • The strikes
  • Like strangers : the third strike and beyond
  • Culture war
  • After the crisis : race and memory.

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