The Newark Teacher Strikes: Hopes on the Line

by Steve Golin and Professor Steve Golin

Winner of the Richard P. McCormick 2003 Prize for Scholarly Publication, given by the New Jersey Historical Commission

For three weeks in 1970 and for eleven weeks in 1971, the schools in Newark, New Jersey, were paralyzed as the teachers went on strike. In the wake of the 1971 strike, almost two hundred were arrested and jailed. The Newark Teachers Union said their members wanted improved education for students. The Board of Education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530571
• ISBN13: 9780813530574
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"