Teachers Action Caucus

Variant names

Hide Profile

The Teachers Action Caucus, as Teachers for Community Control, was a rank and file opposition group within the United Federation of Teachers (New York City) that was founded by former members of the radical Teachers Union of the City of New York (1916-1964), many of whose leading activists were Communists, and by younger teachers representing the New Left of the 1960s. While the impetus for the Caucus founding in 1968 was its objection to the UFTs position relating to the impending crisis in relations between the UFT and the African American community that erupted in the teachers strike later that year, TAC went on to oppose the leadership of the UFT on a broad range of issues relating to its education, labor, and domestic and foreign policy positions. With the rise of the New Action Coalition, a coalition of progressive teachers, in the late 1980s-early 1990s, in which TAC members participated, TAC became less active and eventually ceased to exist.

From the description of Records, 1968-1994. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 475322316

Archival Resources
Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn David Weiner Papers, undated Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Documents re Teachers Action Caucus (TAC-UFT), 1969- Cornell University Library
creatorOf Teachers Action Caucus. Records, 1968-1994. Churchill County Museum
Role Title Holding Repository
Relation Name
associatedWith New Action Coalition. corporateBody
associatedWith Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Shanker, Albert. person
associatedWith Shulman, Michael. person
associatedWith United Federation of Teachers. corporateBody
associatedWith Weiner, David person
Place Name Admin Code Country
New York (State)--New York
Subject
African Americans
African Americans
Teachers
Civil rights
Community and school
Discrimination in education
Educational equalization
Labor union democracy
Minorities
Schools
Strikes and lockouts
Teachers' unions
Occupation
Activity

Corporate Body

Active 1968

Active 1994

Information

Permalink: http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h74h7r

Ark ID: w6h74h7r

SNAC ID: 56079028