The Brooklyn Strike That Tested Black-Jewish Alliance, by Jose Alberto Nino
Contrary to the celebratory myth that the Civil Rights movement ushered in an era of seamless egalitarian brotherhood, the actual implementation of its ideals exposed bitter, ethnic rivalries even among the very groups that worked to undermine White society. On May 9, 1968, 19 educators received letters from the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing board telling them...