Records, 1939-1977.

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Records, 1939-1977.

Correspondence, minutes, financial reports, membership lists, and newsletters, relating to the local while it was affiliated with American Federation of Teachers and efforts to rebuild it after the disaffiliation. Subjects include civil rights, federal aid to education, National Education Association, Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district controversy and strike in Brooklyn, New York City, political action, salaries, standards, and the Vietnam War. Correspondents include Anne Green, Orlie Pell, David Selden, Albert Shanker, Mark Starr, Owen Tapper and Holgate Young.

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Starr, Mark, 1894-1985

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Mark Starr (27 April 1894, Shoscombe – 24 April 1985, New York City) was a British American labor historian and pedagogue. For 25 years he was educational director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Born in Shoscombe, Somerset he was the son of a staunch Free Methodist coal miner. From 1899 to 1907 he attended St Julian's National School. At age thirteen he began work in the mines, later migrating to South Wales. He joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain and the Indepe...

Pell, Orlie Anna Haggerty, 1900-1975

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Orlie Pell (December 13, 1900 – April 11, 1975) was an American pacifist, philosopher, and activist. Orlie Anna Haggerty Pell was born in Paris in 1900, and raised in New York City, the daughter of American parents Howland Haggerty Pell and Mary W. Willetts Pell. Her father was a stock broker. She was part of the prominent extended Pell family that included Claiborne Pell, Stephen Hyatt Pell, William Ferris Pell, and Duncan Pell, among others. Pell attended St. Timothy's School in Catonsvi...

American Federation of Teachers. Workers Education Local 189

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Workers' Education Local 189 was chartered by the American Federation of Teachers on 1 November 1922 as the bargaining agent for the faculty members of Brookwood Labor College, which was one of several independent labor college that flourished during the 1920s and 1930s. From the description of Workers Education local 189 records, 1939-1977, (bulk 1950- 1977). (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32320997 ...

Selden, David

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David Selden, Jr. was a 19th-century merchant in Haddam, Conn. From the description of David Selden papers, 1804-1814. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122534518 ...

Ocean Hill-Brownsville Demonstration School District (New York, N.Y.)

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Young, Holgate

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Labor leader, of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1949-1975. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419823 ...

Green, Anne Carey, 1944-

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Shanker, Albert

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Workers Education Local 189 (U.S.)

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Chartered 1922 as American Federation of Teachers, Workers Education Local 189; in 1977 disaffiliated from the American Federation of Teachers and became the independent Workers Education Local 189. From the description of Records, 1939-1977. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28418802 ...

American Federation of Teachers

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Joyce Wheeler was a member of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a national teachers' labor union founded in 1900. She was particularly active in the United Action Caucus (UAC), a rank and file organization within the AFT. The UAC took stands on various issues within the American educational system, supported progressive politics in general, and campaigned for internal democracy within the AFT. Members of the Communist Party USA are thought to have played an important role in the UAC. Wh...

Tapper, Owen

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National education association of the United States

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