Agitating, Educating, and Organizing: The Making of Revolutionary Literacies

In his article “Ocean Hill-Brownsville Revisited: 1969,” Leslie Campbell began with a prelude to his critique of the “business as usual” atmosphere in the streets of Brooklyn only one year after Black and Puerto Rican students, parents, and teachers demanded community control of neighborhood schools:

The streets of Ocean Hill-Brownsville are now silent. The shock waves it reeled from in the Fall of 1968 have now subsided. The volcano that spewed forth hot lava is once again sleeping. The hurricane watch has ended and it is now business as usual.