Records of the East End Education Committee (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1968-1972.

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Records of the East End Education Committee (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1968-1972.

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The records of the East End Education Committee date from 1969 to 1972 and contain minutes of board and general meetings, correspondence, mailing and membership lists. The records include operational and administrative transactions, and are not complete. Many rough drafts and meeting notes are included. One of the more interesting aspects of the records includes a report compiled by several committee members. This report reviewed actual textbooks used in schools, and showed how the texts were sexist in the treatment of roles for girls and boys. The records also include a survey comparing the number and percentages of African American pupils in Pittsburgh's secondary and elementary systems on October 1, 1970 and September 30, 1971. The current records do not contain information on activities later in 1972 and 1973, even though the organization was still in existence.

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East End Education Committee (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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In 1969, a group of housewives in Pittsburgh formed the East End Education Committee (EEEC) to continue the work of a group called Concerned Citizens. Concerned Citizens demanded reforms from Pittsburgh's Board of Public Education which would force the school board to become more responsive to the needs of its students. One of the first issues concerned the inadequate presentation of the school budget by the school board. Over the next few years, the EEEC convinced the school board to schedule a...

Pittsburgh Board of Public Education (Pa.)

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Dorothy Albert was born to Russian immigrants on February 25, 1908, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1928 with an A.B. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, she became an English teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School in Squirrel Hill. In March, 1950, she was denounced as a communist by FBI informant Matthew Cvetic during a hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Her name was published along with many other alleged area communists in the Pittsburgh newspa...