Preview: Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Part 1

For three years in the late 1960s, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Ocean Hill-Brownsville was at the epicenter of an experiment in community control of schools. Today, Ocean Hill-Brownsville is mostly remembered for the longest teachers' strike in American history: 36 days in the fall of 1968. But Ocean Hill-Brownsville helped to shape a particular brand of defiant, independent, and intensely proud Black activism that would define political life in Central Brooklyn for generations. And students from Ocean Hill-Brownsville still say this was the best education they ever received.