ABSTRACT
On September 9, 1968, outside of a junior high school in the northern tip of Manhattan, two lines of students had formed. They were waiting. One group was mostly black; the other was entirely white. The white students were waiting for their escorts. They were going to be taken to a nearby synagogue where a "freedom school" had been organized by striking teachers. The black students were soon to be ushered into their regular public school by teachers who were breaking the strike. One of the nonstriking teachers, outraged at the sight,
said to a striking teacher, "This is the most vicious, destructive thing that's ever happened to this school." The striking teacher, unmoved, yelled "Scab!"3
