A series of teachers’ strikes temporarily shut most of New York’s schools in the late 1960s, provoked by an ongoing dispute over whether parents could have a say in the running of their children’s schools.

‘Community control’ over the city’s schools was a divisive issue at the time, part of the civil rights and Black Power movement in the USA.

Linda Mannheim speaks to Monifa Edwards, who was a pupil in the district of Ocean Hill-Brownsville, a name that became synonymous with the struggle over who controlled the local schools: the communities or the mainly white city officials.