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

by Jerald Podair

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300109407
• ISBN13: 9780300109405
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 9.2"