White parents in the 1960s fought to be part of a new, racially integrated school. Where’d they go?
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The New York City Board of Education has an archive of all of its records.
Everything that goes into making thousands of schools run for years and years is sitting in boxes in the municipal building.
I love the BOE archive.
First of all, to look through it you have to go to a century old municipal building downtown.
Arched doorways, lots of marble and echo vaulted ceilings.
Really makes a person feel like she's up to something important.
You sit at a table and a librarian rolls your boxes up to you on a cart.
Inside the boxes are all the dramas of a school system.
Big ones, tiny ones, Bureaucratic, personal.
It's all in there.
There's a union contract and then a zoning plan and special reports on teacher credentialing.
A weird personal note from a bureaucrat to his assistant.