#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
From The Martyr Made Podcast by Darryl Cooper
June 26, 2023 · 6h 42m
About this episode
This episode discusses the impact of the Great Migration and the racial conflicts in American cities, focusing on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district conflict.
The Great Migration of 1915-1960 saw over six million African Americans move from the rural South to the big cities of the North and West. It was one of the largest mass migrations in human history, and one whose consequences defined American domestic politics throughout the 20th century. But it wasn’t the first time the industrial cities of America had experienced massive demographic transformation, and the black migrants would run smack into the immigrants of previous generations. In the 1960s, frustration and anger turned to conflict, as race riots drove what was left of the white ethnics out of the inner cities. Today we tell the story of the battle for control of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in New York City – a topic which might sound a bit dull, but was one of the most intense periods of racial conflict in recent American history. The conflict captured the attention of the country for months, and led to a split in the alliance between American blacks and American Jews that had powered the civil rights movement until the late 1960s. SUPPORT THE SHOW! I don’t use sponsors for this show. I work for you guys. If you’d like to help out, become a subscriber to the…
People in this episode
Host: Darryl Cooper
Topics covered
- Great Migration
- racial conflict
- American history
- education
- demographic change
- civil rights
Keywords
- Great Migration
- African Americans
- race riots
- Ocean Hill-Brownsville
- New York City
- civil rights
- demographic transformation
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Places: America, Ocean Hill-Brownsville, New York City
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