Edwin H. Cerney Papers 1939, 1972-1980

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Edwin H. Cerney Papers 1939, 1972-1980

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Edwin Cerney was a tenured employee of the Stockton Unified School District (CA) whose services were terminated after he refused to sign a required Levering Act loyalty oath in 1951. Materials in this collection document Cerney's subsequent claim for compensation and provide a brief description of the Hudson Shore Labor School (NY).

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Cerney, Isobel M.

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Cerney, Edwin H.

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Edwin H. Cerney, a professor in the Art Department of Stockton Junior College (Stockton Unified School District, California) was one of a number of teachers who refused to sign a loyalty oath required under the Levering Act of 1950. Although he continued teaching through the end of the school year (June 1951), his salary was witheld. He left the Stockton School District to seek employment elsewhere and eventually obtained a position at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Years late...