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...narrates, in a straight-forwardbut dramatic tone, "I was a victim of the New YorkCity public schools." Growing up in theBedford-Stuyvestant section of Brooklyn, Watsonwas the son of "very hard-working blue-collarworkers." His mother worked in a Kosher bakery,his father was a truck driver...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Voicing Controversial Views | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...March of 1969, Medgar Evers came intoexistence as Staten Island Community College,President William M. Birenbaum's proposal for anew experimental college within CUNY. The schoolwas slated to take up several blocks of theBedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Counter, Medgar Evers Spar Over Job | 8/2/1988 | See Source »

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