1960s New York | Crisis in the City | Teachers Strikes | Racial Tension | John Lindsay | 1968
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President Nixon faces two problems, Vietnam and racial polarisation in the big cities.
New York city has the highest proportion of people on public assistance, its police have been out on strike and its firemen are still on strike.
Up to 50,00 teachers are also out on strike because of racial friction within Brooklyn’s schools. ‘This Week’ reporter John Edwards speaks to both Teachers and those who govern the city about what can be done to solve this crisis and get the teachers back into the classrooms.
First shown: 07/11/1968
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I remember these days, death threats from strangers as you came up from the subway, couldn’t bother to introduce themselves. I, for one left for the opposite in 1974, a 1st - 6th
grade one-room in Appalachia, northwestern WVa. I discovered there another type of ghetto. It looked different, but the problems were the same. I still got death threats and some religious fellow was supposed to have put the curse of the Christ killers on me. Why? I was from NYC, so I was automatically evil. It wasn’t about race; rather, religion, financial class, and politics. I was there to teach whichever students came and desired to learn. That’s all. I lasted two years in both places and took a year off from teaching in public school. I’m afraid we’re back in the same quagmire, some parents want non-traditional schools, lgbtq, trans, education, equally vociferous parents want the three r’s and nothing else. You can’t say gay, and celebrate no holidays because someone’s feelings will get hurt. I retired just in time to miss the worst year yet, 2019-2020, the collapse of nearly all education due to Covid.
Sounds like a Democrat shitshow.
54 years on and things don’t seem to have changed that much.
oh, lots changed. Crime rate is lower than in the late 60s/70s, the city isn't bankrupt , police/firefighters aren't on strike, the Bronx isn't burning, Time Square isn't a perverse playground. It's night and day different.
@@tomservo5007 Lot of blind spots in that Servo reply. All the artists that populated the Lower East Side then have been driven out by price hikes since. Don't you show any interest in art history? you should Know this. And all the beat writers that made Greenwich Village so vibrant into the Sixties have not been replaced by anything creative or anything the least bit freethinking either. Don't you do much independent thinking? The adventurous musicians and bands and filmmakers of the Seventies have not been replaced by any comparative musical or cinematic talent. I guess you're not into music. I guess independent filmmaking isn't on your horizon. And if you want to go further upmarket from Midtown to the Upper East & West, get this: The last generation of great American writers that flocked to be based in NY in what was the hub of the country's publishing, fiction and nonfiction, from Kurt Vonnegut to Tom Wolfe, from Norman Mailer to Joe Heller, from George Plimpton to Jimmy Breslin, from Truman Capote to Pete Hamill, from Edward Albee to Allen Ginsberg to Gail Sheehy to Dan Wakefield to Pauline Kael to Dick Schaap to Robert Hughes to Philip Roth, all dead, and that last wave and those literary movements have not been replaced. What we have now are isolated incidents. Maybe you don't dig literature? What about journalism? The New York Times hasn't been 'the paper of record' with respect to investigative journalism or good writing for years. Unless you believe everything you read in the papers? As for crime, several crimes you could once be prosecuted for are now decriminalised: high crime muggings on Wall Street are success stories now by people who thought Michael Douglas played the hero and Charlie Sheen played a snitch. And I have to wonder now what passes for Culture in your neck of the woods.
@@4-dman464 "Lot of blind spots in that Servo reply." , The OP claimed NYC hasn't changed since the 60s/70s on a video titled NYC in Crisis . My reply was adequate for such a ignorant statement. Your reply is more of a gripe.
@@tomservo5007 Fatuous, as shallow as it gets without drooling, as if any details of the point whether in journalism or literature or indie music or cinema or art or freethinking or high crimes are utterly beyond your brainpan.
@@tomservo5007, it’s amazing how you’ve cherry picked a part of the title in order to take my comment out of context. First I mean what I say and say what I mean, if my comment was meant as a dig at New York City I would have used the city’s name. No large town or city is stagnant, London (my home city) has changed a lot since 1968 and I dare say so has any other large population centre.
The title of clip does say “city in crisis” but it also says “racial tensions”. My comment, if taken in the context of the clip, was obviously about racism. I’d explain further as to what my comment is referring to but to be honest I have neither the time, energy (emotional or mental) or patience of doing so.
The guy at 21:00 gets it. Education for all kids is paramount, regardless of their background. That's what matters. Very interesting video.
Except none of that is true.
Wow right before the turbulent 70s. This is the setup for the next decade which would be wild in NYC!!
Does anyone remember a NYC teacher's strike in 1967? I remember the 68' strike but almost positive there was a short one in 1967?
I went to that school 🏫, I.S.271 John M. Coleman Junior high school in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn and graduated 🎓 in 2003
Show the yearbook or I don’t believe you.
@@raggamuffin2682 I still have the 2003 yearbook on my bookshelf in my living room.
8:11 Kid's wearing a pin that says "O'Dwyer". Bill O'Dwyer was mayor from 1946-1950 and died four years before this footage was filmed. 🤔
Lol, it was quite common to wear political pins back in the day. Many people collected them. Just because the guy was dead doesn't mean they wouldn't wear his pin...
That was someone else. The button is for Paul O'Dwyer who had run for mayor in 1965. He was the younger brother of William O'Dwyer.
Why some of your recent videos NOT CLOSED CAPTIONED?
sometimes YT takes a few days to autogenerate captions
Calm down Spencer
Go to Brownsville today and you will see that this area has improved 1000%.
As a person of colour I have to say we don’t seem to get on much at all. It’s the same ole story. I live in Eastern Europe now and the country is 99% white and they have a harmonious and healthy functioning society without racial issues. You mix that up with migrants and the like and dilute their homogeneity then it will all fall apart. Their is nothing wrong with an all white or black society in their national home but once you mix em your looking for trouble. We all suffer , both colours.. but America is a specific country and the lesson of learning to live together is in their destiny.. a hard task indeed.. but in the end I think they can do it..
🇺🇦 must be fighting Immigrants 🤦🏽♂️
You must have missed all the wars in the late 20th century in Europe.
I'm always amazed about Americans lack of basic knowledge about other countries.
@@MsPeabody1231 I am not American but British and also I know my history of Europe inside out..
Probably the most honest answer really. Multiculturalism doesn’t work, it hasn’t worked anywhere, and it’s always the civilians who pay the price, never the politicians or the benevolent souls who enact it.
@@MsPeabody1231 Just to put this in perspective for you, you went to a video about tension between different peoples, responded to a comment about discord between different peoples, and your response was to insult a group of people. We can all be better, yeah?
2023 and STILL the same issues.
And is most likely why CZcams seems to either bury or heavily censor these old videos with the perceptive from the day. They would rather you get footage from these but with a current leftist cleansed perspective.
I remember that teachers strike very well. We couldn't go to school, and my mother blamed Nader and Lindsey during the entirety. I was glad because I hated that junior high school I went to: Arthur S. Sommers!😒
What a disgrace.
13:34 see Getting In Tune The Who '70s song
Reptilian Alien..
Diversity and equality is the key.
Yes it is a key to fall of our civilization.
Equality doesn't exist and Diversity tears societies apart usually.
I agree. Building mixed housing is important. In my community there is both large villas, rental blocks and all in between mixed. There is about 30% immigrants and it works very well. The division is more about education level and income, just as in a racially homogeneous society.
@@Christian-rj2yc, no one stays in mixed housing long when crime increases as inevitably is the case.
@@Interlocutor67 They do, I am a witness. Who says crime must rise? The key is the mix. On the streets around here no one knows if the next person lives in a expensive villa or an apartment. I grew up in a racially homogeneous white neighbourhood and my god the amount of trouble. The problem there was all new neighborhood with only young parents. There is trouble in many neighbourhoods but there are also solutions.
The problem is that you cannot unite two different culture. Multiculturalism can only work if all people living in one country have similar roots or they have something in common - history, culture, language or they are the same race. Segregation is not a bad thing at all and althought it is banned in the USA , it doesn´t mean it is´t working. You have a white neighbohoods and private schools are mainly white or asian. If you look at school results you will see that the highest score got Asian and White students. It is not a racism. It is a fact. Segregation means a dignity to all people no matter of race.
If you want things to go that way you will need to propagandize the public over about 70 years and rewrite many historical books to make it seem like your position was always the case. You'll also need to change most accepted social metrics around so that the data fits your thesis. I say this only because that's how we ended up in the present situation.
@@davelowe1977 History is always written by winners. I am talking about present. I don´t know who you are and frankly I don´t care. I just don´t want to end up jobless and discriminated in my own county simple because I am a white man and this is already happening in the USA. They call it " apositive discrimination" It is a dicrimination and definetely not positive. Discrimination cannot be a positive thing. It is a nonsence as well as all nations can live in peace.
@@michalbock7648 I completely agree. I'm simply explaining the scale of the problem.
You are not being discriminated. In fact its the other way around - there IS discrimination in America but its for people like yourself. You're the beneficiary.
There are many studies confirming this, namely that black and latino applicants are less likely to get jobs based on callbacks and requests for interviews. In particular I refer you to a study conducted by PNAS in 2017 entitled “Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time” which you can search for online. Amongst other things this report shows that for black applicants there has been no change/improvement in hiring prospects for black job seekers since 1990.
Your other point re: segregation, it wasn't just about separating races but about withholding resources as well; the white schools had plenty of money/facilities provided to them while these same things were withheld from the black ones. This idea is very much built into the concept of segregation in America and as such was a system of great unfairness
@@JohnnyFriendly Are you kidding, right? Everything what I have is my doing and achieved that not because I am a white, but I am a capable and educated man. Don´t tell me how great the USA is. I lived there for 2 years and thank God I don´t live there right now. Black and hispanic people get the job much easier than white. They are certain standards about how many employees must from the minority. So do not spread lies like that. If white people have better school it just means that they can afford it. School funding is dependent on taxes. Nobody gives white people anything for free.
The fact that the guy is calling people negro's 😱
A lot of things were said in the past that wouldn’t be acceptable today
its 40 years ago you fool
Negro means black in Spanish and Portuguese; from the Latin, Nigrum.
I totally understand why it was rejected given its historical usage. Nonetheless its interesting and ironic, in terms of the subtleties of language/communication, that it was superceded by "black"
That was the term used then!
That was the standard term up until the 1970s
The Silent/Boomer generation really screwed this chance up lol
Integration in schools didn't work then nor today.
Segregation obviously worked in the Space Race!🤦🏽♂️ Suggest you watch Hidden Figures, you might actually learn something. Like how Russia, a country with no Black's, got a black person in space before USA 🤷🏾♂️ Or why Katherine Johnson and all her black colleagues @ NACA, were segregated from their colleagues at NASA 👽
@@WiiNV, There'd be no U S. Space Program without German scientists and technology stolen from Germany after WWII.
@@Interlocutor67
To the victor the Spoils, a lesson learned by the Indigenous population of the USA 🤫
@@WiiNV , who came over from Siberia originally so as 'indigenous' as you or I, so don't play that old discredited card.
@@Interlocutor67
Glad you're not celebrating Columbus Day 🤥