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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".
New York City Teacher's Strike of 1968: 1968 New York City: 52,700 [62] 1975 AFSCME Pennsylvania strike: 1975 Pennsylvania: 52,000 [27] 1950 International Harvester strike: 1950 52,000 [66] 1959 East & Gulf Coast longshoremen strike: 1959 East & Gulf Coast +50,000 [67] Clockmakers' strike: 1910 New York City: 50,000 [68] 1962 East & Gulf Coast ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 closed down almost all New York City schools for 36 days. Perhaps Shanker is best known for opposing community-control leaders in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of New York City, which led to the 1968 strike after white teachers were dismissed from the school district by the recently appointed ...
The 2023 Portland Association of Teachers strike was the first teacher strike in district history. [16] The strike involved teachers and other PAT members at Portland Public Schools, the largest school district in Oregon. The strike began on November 1, 2023 and ended November 26, 2023. [17] [18]
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]
John Vliet Lindsay (/ v l iː t /; November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician and lawyer.During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, the mayor of New York City, and a candidate for U.S. president.