Word: mccoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protesting students charged that the law firm--Milbank, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--oppresses the black people of South Africa by supporting their government. The firm represents the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...McCoy called Ocean Hill-Brownsville a corrupt district. "Many of the teachers we removed were unfit. We didn't want them because they didn't think our kids were capable of learning," he said...
...kids aren't uneducable," McCoy said, "they're the victims of uncommitted teachers and 'separate but equal' facilities." He said there are 9000 students and only eight schools in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. "These children are two and one half years behind white students of comparable grade-level. Many of them still cannot read or write in the 7th grade," he said...
...heart of the problem, said McCoy, lies in whether the black community will be allowed to execute the right of community control over its schools--a right which belongs to every other community...
...Some of the students in Ocean Hill-Brownsville don't come to school because they don't have any clothes." McCoy said. "During the strike, our teachers went to these kids' homes and tutored them. That's the kind of responsibility and responsiveness we're looking for in our teachers...