The Movement for Community Control of New York City's Schools, 1966-1970: Class Wars

Abstract

Part 1 Race matters - New York City, 1955-65: the civil rights' coalition under strain Jewish-Americans and African-Americans the of law and order race and schooling integration's poor showing special programs ghetto schools. Part 2 Crisis in Black and White, 1966-67: East Harlem's new school the Civilian Review Board the Ford Foundation and proposals I.S. 201 winter of discontent - I.S. 201 Ocean Hill-Brownsville the People's Board of Education Harlem's P.S. 36-125 other areas school protests Brooklyn CORE, Spring 1967 the Bundy Panel the mixed coalition school reform. Part 3 The invisible become visible - The demonstration districts - 1967-68: planning the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration District the UFT's strike, 1967 deepening rifts in Ocean Hill-Brownsville the I.S. 201 complex the Two Bridges district the Joan of arc proposal the bureaucracy at 110 Livingston Street the Bundy Report crisis in East Harlem - the Malcolm X Memorial Rally the price paid - Lee Campbell and John Harchell the George Fuccillo affair crisis in Ocean Hill-Brownsville - Spring 1968. Part 4 A visibility problem, Summer 1968: the disputed 19 staff sorting the evidence the decentralization debate in Albany teacher's for the local governing board local parents against the demonstration board towards the Rivers' inquiry Mr Rivers adjudicates New York City's African-American militants - Summer of 1968. Part 5 The unheavenly city - New York, Fall 1968: city boards re-organizations the September teachers' strike renew strike action the brink - the UFT, October-November 1968 aftermath of the strikes in Ocean Hill-Brownsville division in the city, Fall 1968 school personnel the Central Labour Council racial minorities inside Ocean Hill-Brownsville name-calling and the antisemitism scare of 1968 the scuppering of the reform coalition from the top the grassroot's movement educational change. Part 6 Movement days in the deep north at the end, 1969-70: the I.S. 201 project after the school strike the new antisemitism scare the student revolution of 1969 the state legislature, 1969 Ocean Hill-Brownsville during 1969 the Two Bridges project the mayoral campaign of 1969 the 1970 school elections District 23 and skin politics during 1970-71 post-mortems on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville project. Part 7 Interpretations - race, class and gender in the community control controversy. (Part contents).