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American Federation of Teachers: Stellar Integration Record
. Special To The Post
!' By Libby Clark
y a report card was demanded
today, The American Federation
oftfeachers would get an "E" for
Ejaellence. It's far and away the
most Integrated union in orga
nized labor from top to bottom.
The union has seven vice presl-
d^ts. They are Sandra Irons,
Jajcquelyn Vaughn, Lorretta
Johnson, Nathaniel LeCour,
Jciin Elliott, Carol Graves and
George Springer.
Since its founding in 1916, the
AFT has been in the forefront of
organized labor's battles to gain
ci^ rights, economic parity and
security for blacks.
In the first half of the 20th
century, when segregation and
discrimination was widespread
and many trade unions exclud
ed- blacks from membership,
the AFT was among the first un-
iotW to break down racial bar
riers and open its membership
to blacks and other minorities.
In southern states, black
teachers in segregated school
districts organized their own
uiilons locals and readily affili
ated with the AFT. Local 9, an
allyblack Washington, D.C., un
ion, was chartered in 1916.
Black teachers elsewhere
joined on equal footing with
their white counterparts to or
ganize integrated AFT locals in
their respective school districts
in other parts of the country.
In 1918, the AFT demanded
equal pay for black teachers
and years later backed up its
plea with a generous contribu
tion to the NAACP fund ear
marked for equal pay activities.
Alsodn 1918, AFT called for
the election of blacks to local
school boards, and it lobbied
for compulsory school atten
dance by black children, and
equal educational opportunity
for said students.
In 1928, AFT demanded that
the historical contributions of
Black Americans be taught in
the public schools.
The union has not been with
out racial strife within its own
ranks. As late as 1950, it was
necessary for AFT to expel a
number of locals who steadfast
ly refused to admit blacks to
their membership. This action
resulted in a loss of nearly
10,000 members. The results —
a fully integrated union.
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BLACK HISTORY
MONTH
our office salutes
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The American Federation of
Teachers receives a grade of
"E' for excellence.
The 60s found the AFT in the
vanguard of the civil rights
movement alongside such ven
erable fighters as A. Philip Ran
dolph, the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., Whitney Young, Roy
Wilkins, James Farmer and oth
er civil rights stalwarts. Indeed,
AFT members helped to orga
nize the 1963 "March on Wash
ington" for Justice and Jobs,
and over the next five years AFT
staffers and members traveled
South to register new, black vot
ers and to teach in the "freedom"
schools.
Along with other unions and
civil rights organizations, AFT
also lobbied for passage of key
civil rights legislation, re; the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Act, the Fair Housing Act and
the Voting Rights Act.
Further involvement of AFT,
along with civil rights groups
and the AFL-CIO includes lob
bying efforts on behalf of a de
cent minimum wage, for which
legislation was favorably
passed last year; school inte
gration, adequate integrated
housing. Medicare, full employ
ment and aid to education. The
battle to keep these programs
and to expand them continue,
and AFT remains in the thick of
the battle.
Headquartered in Washing
ton, D.C., the 680,000-member
American Federation of Teach
ers is an international AFL-CIO
union, whose membership is
made up of primarily elemen
tary and secondary school
teachers, college and university
professors and other non-
supervlsory teachers in urban,
suburban and rural school dis
tricts throughout the United
States, its strongest concentra
tion is in the large cities across
the country.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
[ Sunday
Monday
Tuoaday
Wadnaaday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
THEME: Black Eieolianea;
Convocabon Spoakor:
JCSU Jaaz/Pap Band
Laadarahip Conloraneo at
Aro Our Oraama Dafarrod?
Rov Or. Joaoph Lewory
playa lor tho Charlotto
Univ. of South Carolina.
t0:00am> Univoriiiy
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0:30am
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Convocation Spoahor:
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Spaakar: Ronald Harrall
Shaki OarKa/Modaiing
Baakatball va. WSSU
/ Foliar
Rov Calvin Hood
7:00pm- Univarsity
Troupa 6:00pm- Onmaa
Film Foativab Roota
10;00am- Univoraily
Crwpal
Lounga
Roviatod
Chipal
Film Fastrval- Rooit
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