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xi, 273 pages : 25 cm "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 book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis - a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its influence on city politics, economics, and culture. Podair shows how the crisis became a symbol of the vast perceptual chasm separating black and white New Yorkers And the legacy of this critical moment, when blacks and whites spoke past each other like strangers, has ever since played a role in c

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Author

Podair, Jerald E., 1953-

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300109405

Category

education

Subjects

Fiction, Political Science, History

Rating

3.88 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13