Biographical information

File — Box: 232, Folder: 5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Compiled by Dodie Younger; Ocean Hill-Brownsville dispute over decentralization and community control of schools in the New York City School System (1967-1968); Two Bridges Model District on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, for which George D. Younger was the Chairman of the Local School Board, was approved in 1967 by the NYC Board of Education and the United Federation of Teachers to be designated as one of three demonstration districts along with Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn and IS 201 in Harlem (Donor recommends, for more infomration: “A Brief History of the Conflict at Ocean Hill-Brownsville” at the Marilyn Gittell Digital Archive; Cannato, Vincent, “The 1968 New York City School Strike Revisited: The Story of Ocean Hill-Brownsville”, In: Commentary, June 2018; and, Russo, Alexander, “New York City 1968 wasn’t a teachers strike; it was a community insurrection” In: Phi Delta Kappan, September, 26, 2018)

Dates

Creation: 1951-2001

Creator

From the Collection: Younger, George D., Jr. (George Dana), 1924-2001 (Person)

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

All materials within this collection are in English.

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