Stephen Brier is a professor in the Urban Education PhD program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the co-author of Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education and is at work on study of the fight for community control in New York City in the 1960s.

09.12.2018

• Stephen Brier

The UFT’s Opposition to the Community Control Movement

The New York teachers’ union in the 1960s was stridently anticommunist and embraced an elitist sense of professionalism — producing an obsessive opposition to community involvement and black nationalism and the 1968 Ocean Hill-Brownsville strikes.