Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: From the civil rights battle front

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: From the civil rights battle front:

From the civil rights battle front

by Mike Klonsky

Little Rock, 1957

'More Blacks and Latinos Admitted to Elite New York High Schools'

When I read the above headline in the Times this morning, I thought for a moment I was in Arkansas circa 1957, when National Guard troops were needed to escort the Little Rock 9 through the doors of Central High School. Maybe we should call these newly-admitted black and Lationo students, the Stuyvesant 9.

The Right to organize

Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit have an Op-Ed in today's NYT: "A Civil Right to Unionize." They call for legislation that would make disciplining