Martin Mayer

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Roy Metcalf of the City's Commission on Human Rights interviews Martin Mayer, author of _The teachers strike: New York, 1968_.

Mr. Mayer explains the origins and unlikely development of the catastrophic strike, and touches on the hot issue of "community control."

https://lccn.loc.gov/76076801


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 151687
Municipal archives id: T4797

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