Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
by
Professor Jerald E. Podair
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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...