With author and U. of Wisconsin Professor Jon Shelton & Introduction by Michael Fabricant (PSC-CUNY) Co-sponsored by the Murphy Institute Labor and Urban Studies, and Bronx Community College, Department of History A wave of teacher strikes in the 1960s and 1970s roiled urban communities. Jon Shelton illuminates how this tumultuous era helped shatter the liberal-labor … Continue reading Brownbag Discussion: Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order →

By Professor Jeanne Theoharis of Brooklyn College Wednesday, March 7th , 2018 at 12 pm 18th Floor Classroom 18A The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines, has shuttered the … Continue reading Faculty Brown Bag: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History →