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Title:
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: STATE FEDERATIONS COLLECTION Genre: Papers,
Date : 1922-1967 (Predominantly 1945-1967) Size : 8 Linear Feet ID #: 348-aft-st_fed OCLC: ©Walter P.
Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs HEFA.01c.update |
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Scope &
Contents
The State Federations of the American Federation of Teachers were placed in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs in May of 1969 by the A.F.T. and were opened for research in 1970. The material was reprocessed and a new guide was written in May of 1992.
The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916. The union has been concerned with the development of professional recognition, better teaching conditions, civil rights and disadvantaged children as well as obtaining monetary objectives for teachers.
The State Federations are composed of the local unions of each state. The policy of the AFT is to have a conglomeration of locals to form a state federation, not to have all teachers join one state union.
The majority of the materials in Series II are dated between 1945-1967 but some materials date back to 1922. The greatest percentage of the papers in this collection is correspondence between the state organizations and the national office. Other materials in this collection are state constitutions, lawsuits, legal decisions, state and federal legislation, speeches, pamphlets, salary information, histories, news releases, newspaper articles, union newspapers and convention programs.
Important subjects covered in the collection are:
Board Teacher Relationships
Collective Bargaining
Right to Join a Union
Salary
State Legislation
16 manuscript boxes
Series
I, The State Organizations, Boxes 1-15: To
Series I Box List
These are the files concerned with the State Organizations.
Series II, The National Organization - The President's Office, Box 15: To Series II Box List
This contains correspondence, "The President's Column", Presidential Reports and miscellaneous items that came from the President's Office between 1962-1966.
Series III, The National Organization - Speeches and Speech Material, Boxes 15-16: To Series III Box List
This material is either speeches given by people from the national office or material they used to write the speeches.