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Al Shanker - The Bridge (Stokely Carmichael (Deeply concerned with the…

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        Over a 1,000 teachers strikes between 1960 and 1980
        
        1967 - UFT on strike for the right to evict unruly children from the classroom
        
        Rhody McCoy and Luther Seabrook opposed the union
        
        Arguments penetrate the white mainstream
        
        Up the Down Staircase
        
        To Sir with Love
        
        Death at an Early Age
        
        Uncle Tom's Cabin: Alternate Ending
        
        McCoy was voted to oversee the neighborhood school board project in Ocean Hill-Brownsville
        
        Hired Herman Ferguson, a Black Panther and former assistant principle to be a paid educational assistant
        
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        Hired Campbell after Ferguson lost his job
        
        Seemed to be claiming the right to determine exactly which kids were capable of learning
        
        1967 UFT assigned Sandy Feldman to work with students in Ocean Hill-Brownsville
        
        More Effective Schools
        
        Newark, NJ became the site of the longest and most violent teachers' strike in American History
        
        Newark Teachers Union had freed teachers from "nonprofessional chores"
        
        Activists used the opportunity to "prove" that unionized teachers were only concerned for themselves and disrespected poor black children
        
        Matilda Gouacide hit by a car as she left school grounds - November 17, 1970
        
        14 weeks-2,500 person strike-1 dead teacher-conviction and imprisonment of 185 more teachers
      - collective bargaining
      - end to "non-professional chores"