Teachers & Education
Teaching Labor's Story
Teachers & Education
Overviews: Historical Context
7.2 Margaret Haley, “Why Teachers Should Organize” 1904
An excerpted speech given by teacher union leader Margaret Haley to the general assembly of the National Education Association in 1904. It was also published in the Journal of Education.
8.2 Blank Pay Days, 1933
This document is excerpted from an article written by a Chicago school teacher about how the Great Depression was affecting her work and personal life; published 1933 in The Saturday Evening Post.
8.3 Spasmodic Diary of a Chicago School Teacher, 1933
An excerpt from a published selection of a diary that belonged to an anonymous Chicago public school teacher, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly in November 1933.
9.1 Triumph of the Paraprofessionals, August 22, 1970
This opinion piece by civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin celebrates the signing of the first union contract for paraprofessional educators — community-based classroom and school support staff, nearly all of them black and Hispanic women — in New York City. It was published in the New York Amsterdam News, the city’s largest black-owned newspaper, in 1970.
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