Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn's own Barbra Streisand, who said: "I feel like a kid with a plaything...
Their appeal is to bravado. A state of war exists between them and the police, whom the Panthers always call "pigs." In Seattle and Brooklyn, police have been ambushed by snipers close to Panther hangouts. A pair of Panthers are being held as suspects in the fire bombing of a McCarthy-for-President center in San Francisco. Two weeks ago, Panthers cradling rifles invaded a Seattle high school where Negro students were terrorizing whites. Other Seattle Panthers shook down students for protection money in another school. Federal law officers have a strong hunch that some Panthers augment their membership dues...
...complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro leaders, advised an audience of 200 Brooklyn slum dwellers on how to handle arguments with white merchants about overdue bills. His admonition: take a Panther along as a convincer...
...main issue in the dispute was whether or not a community-run school committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...
Only In Brownsville. For the second year in a row, the school year in New York City opened last week with the teachers on strike. A strike vote had been called by Albert Shanker, the tough, shrewd president of the teachers' union, when the locally elected Brooklyn committee refused to reinstate ten teachers it had ordered out of the district last year and tried to replace 200 teachers who had walked out in sympathy. The city's 4,000 school supervisors, including principals and district superintendents, aided the strike by ordering schools closed for the children...