Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turn out to be Negro," he says. Still, he pictures them with such special feeling and skill that their portraits have been shown in galleries across the U.S. and Europe; they are in the collections of Princeton University, Atlanta University, Buffalo's Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum...
Though it must have realized the implications of the experiment, the Central Board, incredibly enough, never told the three experimental boards precisely what powers they had. Thus, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in Brooklyn felt that it was well within its rights in transferring 19 professionals last spring for supposed "sabotage." Union President Albert Shanker, 40, angrily called his teachers out of the area in protest, and the district hobbled along with a handful of nonstriking teachers and bewildered volunteer helpers for the rest of the academic year. The Negro community vowed that none of the 350 strikers would ever...
...with skeleton staffs ran into a bitter barrage of invective. "Commies!" "Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike. Shanker himself was shouted off the stage at a Manhattan meeting by a highly vocal crowd of black parents, who called him a white racist...
...York's trouble began after a neighborhood governing committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn summarily transferred teachers because they were supposedly trying to sabotage the experiment. The committee was never able to document its harsher charges, but it stubbornly refused to back down, and hired its own nonunion instructors. The city's central school board finally suspended the Ocean Hill committee and its administrator, Rhody McCoy, because it refused to return the unwanted teachers to their regular duties. The move seemed to ease the crisis. The teachers were grudgingly accepted in seven of Ocean Hill...
Died. Bea Benaderet, 62, character actress, who starred as the folksy, warmhearted Kate Bradley in TV's Petticoat Junction; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. After years of bending her voice on radio into every accent from Brooklyn to the Ozarks as a comic foil for Fibber McGee and Molly, and Jack Benny, Bea finally got a chance to show her face on TV. In 1950, she appeared as Blanche Morton on The George Burns-Gracie Allen Show and in 1962, as Cousin Pearl on The Beverly Hillbillies, before graduating to Petticoat Junction...