Additional Resources: Bibliography
Additional resources on Ocean Hill-Brownsville
Follow these links from around the web for more information on the Oceanhill-Brownsville controversy.
Gordon, Jane (2009). Ocean Hill-Brownsville Reexamined: When Black Power Collided with the Teachers Union
Kalenberg, Richard (2008). Ocean Hill-Brownsville: Unleashing American Liberalism
Kahlenberg, Richard (2008) Ocean Hill-Brownsville at 40
Kifner, John (1996). Echoes of a New York Waterloo
Luce, Stephanie (2012). From Ocean Hill-Brownsville to Chicago: Learning from History
Podair, Jerald (2001). The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis: New York’s Antigone
Treiman, Daniel (2008). Al Shanker and the Strike of 1968
Read more about McGeorge Bundy, President of the Ford Foundation in 1968.
Listen to the 1968 radio show featuring Bernard Donovan, WOR – Martha Deane Pgm. N.Y. Teachers Strike.
Watch original testimonials from Ocean Hill-Brownsville parents (1968), posted by the Museum of the City of New York).
Suggested Books:
Kahlenberg, Richard D. (2009). Tough Liberal Albert Shanker and the Battles over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231134972.
Podair, Jerald (2002). The Strike that Changed New York. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0300109405.
Pritchett, Wendell (2002). Brownsville, Brooklyn : Blacks, Jews, and the changing face of the ghetto ([Nachdr.] ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226684466.