Strike That Changed New York Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis

Name: Strike That Changed New York Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
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ISBN: 9780300109405

ISBN-10: 0300109407

ISBN-13: 9780300109405

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jerald E. Podair

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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 educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers’ strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and white New Yorkers at bargaining tables, on picket lines, and in the streets. This superb book revisits…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English