Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present, there are some 16 storefront Street Academies in the slum areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Under a program organized by the Urban League, and financed mainly by private industry, street workers search for the promising dropout. The shrewd, sharp youngster, who has seen enough of the dismal life of the ghetto, may be receptive to the suggestion that he can find his way out. After getting used to a routine of study in a Street Academy, he is sent on to an Academy of Transition for advanced classes and individual tutoring...
...complaints are not easy to deal with, and often they tend to overshadow more mundane concerns that may be even more important to students. A coed lunch hour? A new cafeteria menu? Trunks for boys too modest to swim naked in the pool? Students at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn-a ghetto school suffering from all the usual sociological ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers and administrators...
Since it was 25 feet to the ground, it looked as if Ruth and Jack would be stranded until morning. But Ruth, a Brooklyn girl who had been taught in Orthodox Jewish schools, was sure that a deeply religious issue was at stake. As she later explained in an unusual lawsuit, Ruth felt that her religion forbade her to spend the night alone with a man in a place that was inaccessible to a third person. After some thought, she slid from the chair and plummeted to the mountainside, suffering a fractured nose as well as neck and back injuries...
...become the center of black antiSemitism, although it exists in almost every urban center where large communities of Negroes and Jews intermingle. New York has more Jews (1.8 million) and more blacks (1.5 million) than any other city in the world. The predominantly Negro areas of Harlem and Brooklyn's Ocean Hill-Brownsville were once solidly Jewish; now the Jewish presence is signified by absentee storekeepers and landlords who, fairly or not, are regarded by the Negro as colonial exploiters. More often than not, the black child is taught?in a crumbling, inadequate public school?by a Jewish teacher. More...
Complaints about the treatment of the four protesters were not only directed at the railroad. The New York Times referred to the police and the Brooklyn night-court judge as "allies in arrogance" of the road. Edward Dudley, a justice of the New York Supreme Court, announced the start of an investigation into the high bail figure set for the four rebels. "This is not the kind of case for which bail would normally be required," said Dudley. "Someone has made a serious mistake." Deciding that the affair was serious indeed-and that someone ought to pay for their discomfort...