Mayor Bloomberg Remarks on Education Reform (excerpt)
At the 2012 United States Conference of Mayors, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reflected on the first ten years of mayoral control in New York City’s schools.
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The Disability Independence Day March
After Camp Jened closed in 1977, many former campers stayed connected to one another.
S.O. F.E.D. U.P. Handbook for the Disabled Students of Brooklyn College, CUNY, excerpt
The late 1960s and early 1970s saw campus activism around the United States, for social change and against the Vietnam War.
City Hall; Teachers Demonstration
Ocean Hill-Brownsville, a Black and Puerto Rican community in Brooklyn, was one of the three community control demonstration districts in New York City.
Real Message of the Moynihan Report
No single civil rights organization represents all Black Americans.
The Controversial Moynihan Report
The Black press provided a space for Black thinkers to challenge ideas that were getting attention in white newspapers and other media.
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, excerpt
The Negro Family: A Case for National Action (excerpt) Daniel Patrick Moynihan Office of Policy Planning and Research United States Department of Labor March 1965
Puerto Rican Civil Rights March on Film
Concern about school segregation was not only expressed during the school boycott.
A. Philip Randolph Letter to President John F. Kennedy
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom sought to push for change in several ways.
We Kept Our Retarded Child At Home, excerpt
Willowbrook opened in 1947. The number of people living at institutions in and around New York City increased in the early twentieth century as physicians frequently told parents of “mentally retarded” children to send them to institutions where they could be rehabilitated.
Mayor LaGuardia’s Commission on the Harlem Riot, excerpt
On March 19, 1935, rumors spread through Harlem that police had beaten a young man to death after they arrested him for allegedly stealing a knife from a local store.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Rally Posters
Asa Phillip Randolph was born in Crescent City, Florida in 1889.