The Newark Teacher Strikes,9780813530574

The Newark Teacher Strikes

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ISBN13: 9780813530574
ISBN10: 0813530571
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-05-01
Publisher(s): Rutgers Univ Pr
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Summary

For three weeks in 1970 and for eleven weeks in 1971, the schools in Newark, New Jersey, were paralyzed as the teachers went on strike. In the wake of the 1971 strike, almost two hundred were arrested and jailed. The Newark Teachers Union said their members wanted improved education for students. The Board of Education claimed the teachers primarily desired more money. After interviewing more than fifty teachers who were on the front lines during these strikes, historian Steve Golin concludes that another, equally important agenda was on the table, and has been ignored until now. These professionals wanted power, to be allowed a voice in the educational agenda.

Through these oral histories, Golin examines the hopes of the teachers as they picketed, risking arrest and imprisonment. Why did they strike? How did the union represent them? How did their action -- and incarceration -- change them? Did they continue to teach in impoverished schools? Golin also discusses the tensions arising during that period. These include differences in attitudes toward unions amo

Author Biography

Steve Golin is a professor of history at Bloomfield College, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(7)
The Teacher Activists
8(32)
After the Riot / Rebellion
40(32)
The 1970 Strike
72(36)
Black Power between the Strikes
108(32)
The 1971 Strike
140(42)
Teachers in Jail
182(35)
Epilogue: Power to the People? 217(14)
Appendix: Teachers in the Book 231(4)
Notes 235(42)
Index 277

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