American Federation of Teachers Presidents Office: 1960-1970 Records Part II

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The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916 in Chicago. It represented mostly teachers who taught Kindergarten through college. In the 1960s the AFT experienced huge growth after various states allowed public employees to collective bargain and especially after President Kennedy singed an executive order granting federal workers the right as well. The AFT went from a small union of 50,000 to a membership of over 200,000 in a matter of a few years. These papers represent the presidency of David Selden, 1968-1974 during a tremendous grow as well as philosophical change in the AFT.

There is great amount of information on organizing non-public school, especially parochial schools; the merger talks with the NEA and the teacher unity caucus; freedom of speech issues for teachers in the Pickering files.

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