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Left Panel Captions

Members of the Ocean- Hill governing board leaving Brooklyn JHS 271 surrounded by police officers.

In 1968, Albert Shanker led the UFT during Ocean- Hill Brownsville strike.

Members of the UFT are in favor of a strike and Albert Shanker.

Ocean- Hill Brownsville conditions before the strike.

The Ocean-Hill Brownsville district was poor and chaotic.  

The Brown vs. Board ruling banned segregation in public schools.

Middle Panel Caption

Albert Shanker lead about 15,000 teachers in a rally at New York City Hall.

Police officers blocked the doors to prevent anybody from entering the school.

Albert Shanker was viewed as a hero at the time of the strike.

Albert Shanker faced opposition at the time.

Mayor Lindsay supported community control at the time of the strike.

Sonny Carson, who established the local governing boards blocks Fred Nauman, one of the teachers transferred.

Opposition towards UFT.

Albert Shanker leads his UFT troops in a rally during the strike.

Students walk out of JHS 271 in the troubled Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.

Bayard Rustin, a civil rights activist in the 1960’s, supported Albert Shanker in the strikes.

Martin Luther King Jr. supported Shanker during the Ocean- Hill Brownsville crisis.

Race relations, at the time, were hostile.

Men blocked school doors to prevent students and teachers from entering.
All schools in NYC were closed for a long time.

McGeorge Bundy was the head of Mayor Lindsay’s special panel on school decentralization.

Shanker thanks King for support.
Shanker and King honor Bayard Rustin.
King supports Shanker.
Shanker thanks King.
Flier for City Hall Rally of 1968.

Right Panel

Community control supporters protested the UFT’s strike.

The community control experiment at Ocean Hill Brownsville was ended.

The transferred teachers were reinstated.

Shanker was jailed for striking.

Rustin asks King for help.

Thesis

Although there have been many efforts for change in education in the 1900’s, Albert Shanker’s leadership during the Ocean Hill- Brownsville strike of 1968 was the most effective.  

Titles:

Albert Shanker: Leading the Teacher Union’s Battle for Control
Before the Strike

During the Strike

MLK And Shanker

After the Strike

Others

In 1968, Albert Shanker singlehandedly called about three separate strikes in favor of the nineteen white administrators of the Ocean Hill Brownsville District who were transferred by an all black community controlled local governing board.

Nineteen teachers, the majority of which were white UFT members were suddenly transferred out of the district. Shanker led the UFT to reinstate the teachers and end community control. As a result, all New York City public schools were shut down for a total of 36 days, further increasing racial tensions between Blacks and Jews.

Word Count: 438