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The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.
Causey, Virginia E. (2005). "Review of The Strike That Changed New York". Journal of American Ethnic History. 24 (3): 106–107. ISSN 0278-5927. JSTOR 27501619. Dougherty, Jack (2005). "Review of The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis; Justice, Justice: School Politics and the Eclipse of Liberalism".
From the beginning of the 20th century to the 1960s Ocean Hill was an Italian enclave. By the late 1960s Ocean Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant proper together formed the largest African American community in the United States. In 1968, the Ocean Hill–Brownsville school district experienced a major teachers' strike.
The strike lasted for 37 days, over a million students were affected by the strike. The strike came after controversy to integrate the public school system and community control with the school district called Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, Brownsville, Brooklyn. [20] [21] [22] Prior to the teachers' strike was the Brown v.
Anderson Avenue garbage strike. A common scene throughout New York City in 1968 during a sanitation workers strike. The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968 the teachers' union (the United Federation of Teachers, or the UFT) went on strike over the firings of several teachers in a school in Ocean Hill and Brownsville. [6]
The Ocean Hill-Brownsville strike focused on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn but, ironically, the schools in that area were among the few that were open in the entire city. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis is often described as a turning point in the history of unionism and of civil rights, as it created a rift between ...
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Mentioned are the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis and teachers' strike of 1968. The interview concludes with a discussion of the way in which the furriers' union dealt with ethnic and racial diversity in contrast to that of the ILGWU, and the unions' position on immigration, as well as Foner's own.