Title: Human Rights and Community Relations Department–AFT Genre: Records Dates: 1965-1975 Size: 3 linear feet ID#: 348 OCLC: ©Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor & Urban Affairs HEFA.01b.update |
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The Human Rights and Community Relations Department of the American Federation of Teachers was created by Vice President Richard Parrish October 2, 1966. Before the official department was created it was a standing committee and then a permanent committee with in the executive council. The department was created as an office in the AFT that would be responsible for collecting and distributing information about the government, education and community policies and programs dealing with civil and human rights. The most important duty of the department is to guide the AFT in any “involvement with or commitment to labor and other organizations concerned with civil and human rights.”
The bulk of the materials in this collection deals with the Racism in Education conference that the AFT sponsored throughout the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Other materials are general subject files and correspondence to and from the Civil Rights Department.
Eugene Didier
Don Slaiman
Shirely Gold
Marjorie Stern
Louis T. Hurt
Mark Stone
Sandra Feldman
Albert Shanker
Len Lewis
David Selden
Mary Ellen Riordan
Richard Parish
Dr.Harvey Scribner
Ann Ponder
Education - Education Reform Racism in Textbooks
Education - High Schools - Curricula
Teacher Strikes - San Francisco
Education - School Segregation
Oceanhill - Brownsville
Education - Urban Education
AV collection of the Human Rights and Community Relations Department to Reuther AV Department:
Photograph - one unidentified
Photograph - Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Cesar Chavez shaking hands with Frank Sullivan, president of the PFT, 1972 (?)
Poster - “Teachers Are Failing - Indian People Speak Out”, n.d.
6 manuscript boxes
Series I. Conferences and Meetings, 1965-1975, Boxes 1 - 4
Correspondences, clippings, reports, minutes, speeches, questionnaires, notes from meetings. [Box1] [Box 2] [Box 3] [Box 4]
Series II. Subject, 1965-1972, Boxes 4, 5-6
Correspondence, clippings, speeches, and reports to and from the Human Rights and Community Relations Department of the AFT. [Box 4] [Box 5] [Box 6]
Contents |
[Box1] [Box2] [Box3] [Box4] [Box5] [Box6] |
Series I
Conferences and Meetings 1965-1975
Box 1-5
Series 1 consists of correspondence and materials between various states and city locals to the civil rights committee/department. This series also has information about the education and racism conferences that the AFT. These materials contain speeches, notes, minutes, clippings, reports, pamphlets and flyers from the conferences as well as how various locals and state federations handled racism and desegregation in their districts. Files are arranged alphabetically by subject or by type of material.
Box 1
1. Baltimore, 1972
2. Boston, 1974
3. California, 1967-1972
4. “ “ 1974
5. Chicago, 1968-1974
6-7. Chicago; Education vs. Racism Conference, 1968
8. Chicago; Charles Hamilton speech at Education vs. Racism conf., 1968
9. Cincinnati, 1974
10. Cleveland, 1968-1975
11. Denver; Education vs. Racism Conference, 1966-1968
12-13.Detroit; Racism in Education, 1967
14. Detroit/East Detroit, 1970-1975
15. Connecticut, 1969-1972
16. Erie, Pennsylvania, 1968
17. Florida, 1969-1974
18. Gary, Indiana; Black convention, Mar 1972
19. Iowa, 1973-1974
20. Kansas City, Missouri, 1974
1. Los Angeles, 1968
2. Michigan, 1968-1974
3. Michigan, 1972
4. Minnesota, 1969-1972
5. New York City, 1967-1969
6. New York City, 1971-1975
7-8. New Orleans, 1970-1974
9. New Orleans; NEA Task force on school desegregation in Louisiana, 1970
10. Newark, 1969-1974
11. Oakland, California, 1969-1971
12. Philadelphia; Racism in Education Conference, 1966
13 “ “ 1965-1968
1. Philadelphia, 1968-1975
3. Portland, Oregon, 1968-1970
4. St. Louis; Racism in Education, 1968
5. “ “ Decentralization workshop, 1969
6. Washington, DC., 1968-1971
7. Washington, DC., Negro History Conference; registered guests, 1966
8-9. “ “ “ “ “ “ 1966, 1 of 2
10. “ “ “ “ “ “ Keith Baird speech
11. “ “ “ “ “ “ Lerone Bennett speech
12. “ “ “ “ “ “ Robert Bone speech
13. “ “ “ “ “ “ John Hearik Clarke speech
14. “ “ “ “ “ “ Charles Cogen speech
1. “ “ “ “ “ St. Clair Drake speech, 1966
2. “ “ “ “ “ John Franklin speech, 1966
3. “ “ “ “ “ William Kelly speech, 1966
4. “ “ “ “ “ James McPherson speech, 1966
5. “ “ “ “ “ Ken Start, 1966
6. “ “ “ “ Charles Wesley Speech, 1966
7. Washington State, 1966-1967
8. Racism in Education Conference, clippings, 1966
9. Racism in Education Conference; mix materials, 1966-1967
10-11. Racism in Education Questionnaires, 1969
Series II
Subjects
1965-1972
Series 2 contains various subject matters to the Civil Rights department. Materials range from correspondence about the subjects to news clippings, flyers, booklets, reports and speeches. Files are arranged alphabetically
Box 4
12 Afro-American Newspapers, 1967-1968
13 AFT; amicus brief: Hobson vs. Hansen, 1966
14. AFT; Committee on Civil Rights; memorandums, 1967-1969
15 AFT; Committee on Civil Rights; memorandums, 1969-1972
16. AFT Civil Rights committee; school desegregation, 1970
1. AFT; Civil Rights Department; correspondence, 1967-1972
2. “ “ “ “ Conference on School Decentralization, 1968
3. AFT; Equal Education for All, 1970
4. AFT; misc. materials, 1970-1972
5 American Teacher correspondence; re: civil rights, 1970
6. Canfield Journal, 1967
7-8. Curriculum materials, 1967
9. Effects on Discrimination upon children and youth, 1967
10. Guidelines for school desegregation in big cities; drafts, 1970
11. Heritage bulletin, Influence of African language on American language,1965
12. La Raza, 1970
13 Misc. publications, 1972
14. Misc. papers and speeches on civil rights, 1968-1971
15. Misc. papers on racism, 1965-1967
1. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1968
2. NEA; Recommendations to NEA taskforce on Human Rights, 1968
3. Negro in Revolt; Cleveland public library, 1967
4 - 5. News articles, 1966-1971
6. “ “ Baton Rouge Crisis, 1972
7. “ “ Carnasie Crisis, 1972
8. Negro freedom movement: an annotated bibliography, 1967
9. Port Royal experiment: the story of the black experience during the Civil War, 1970
10. Pamphlets, flyers, booklets, 1970
11. Poor People’s Campaign, 1968
12. Racism, 1965-1968
13-14.San Francisco; strike, 1968-1969
15. Segal, Ben speech, 1967
16. Student as a nigger, Jerry Farber, n.d.
17. Treatment of Negroes in American history textbooks, 1965
18-19 US commission on civil rights papers and materials, 1967
20 White Plains, NY; racial balance plan, 1965