Witness History: 1968 New York City teachers' strike
Mannheim, L. 2025. Witness History: 1968 New York City teachers' strike.
Mannheim, L. 2025. Witness History: 1968 New York City teachers' strike.
| Title | Witness History: 1968 New York City teachers' strike |
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| Creators | Mannheim, L. |
| Description | Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. A series of unprecedented teachers’ strikes temporarily shut most of New York’s schools in the late 1960s, provoked by an ongoing dispute over whether parents could have a say in the running of their children’s schools. ‘Community control’ over the city’s schools was a divisive issue at the time, part of the civil rights and Black Power movement, in the USA. Linda Mannheim spoke to Monifa Edwards, who was a pupil at a school in the district of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, a name that became synonymous with the struggle over who controlled the local schools: the communities or the mainly white city officials. A CTVC production. |
| Year | 30 Jan 2025 |
| 2025 | |
| Web address (URL) | https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct5ylb |