Just a warning, there is some salty and spicy language in this episode.

Curseing. This is Code Switch, I'm Shireen Marisol Miraji.

And I'm Jean Demby and all Black History Month with sharing stories of Black

Resistance. And we're going to continue with one that we started last week.

It's about a teacher's strike that popped off after Black and Puerto Rican

parents decided to take control of their kids' educations,

making the mostly white teachers union in New York City very mad.

Like very, very mad. On last week's episode, things got heated. But this week,

this week, things are about to get even messier and we love some mess.

Oh, we do. And like we said on last week's episode,

this isn't a well-known story, but there are a few people out there who do remember it.

And many of them think about it like this.

Isn't that the strike where there was all that Black anti-Semitism?

That's how they remember the strike. Black anti-Semitism.

Up here we go.

So to recap, it was the late 1960s in Brooklyn, New York. More specifically, the

Ocean Hill Brownsville area of Central Brooklyn. Schools were overcrowded to the point that

parents had to send their kids in shifts. And Dolores Torres, a mom of four boys,

says teachers weren't educating the Black and Puerto Rican kids in her community.

The plan for community control was get people on the local school board that represented

these kids and would represent us.

But when that plan was implemented, teachers tried in various ways to shut it down.

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