Reds at the blackboard : communism, civil rights, and the New York City Teachers Union

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Label

Reds at the blackboard : communism, civil rights, and the New York City Teachers Union

Title remainder

communism, civil rights, and the New York City Teachers Union

Statement of responsibility

Clarence Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Clarence

Subject

• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor
• Civil rights
• Civil rights -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• Communism and education
• Communism and education -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• Culture and History of non-European Territories
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Global History
• HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local | Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
• History
• History
• 1900-1999
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations
• Teachers
• Teachers -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• Teachers -- New York (State) | New York -- Political activity | History -- 20th century
• Teachers -- Political activity
• Teachers' Union of the City of New York
• Teachers' Union of the City of New York -- History -- 20th century
• Teachers' unions
• Teachers' unions -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
• New York (State) -- New York

Genre

• Electronic books
• History
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

Reds at the Blackboard recounts the rise of a unique type of unionism in the early twentieth century that would later dominate the organizational efforts behind civil rights, academic freedom, and the empowerment of blacks and Latinos across the United States. Through its affiliation with the American Communist Party, the New York City Teachers Union pioneered what would later become social movement unionism, solidifying ties with labor groups, black and Latino parents, and civil rights organizations to acquire greater school and community resources. It also militantly fought to improve working conditions for teachers while championing broader social concerns. Clarence Taylor follows the union's early growth and the somewhat illegal attempts by the Board of Education to eradicate the group. He describes how the infamous Red Squad and other undercover agents worked to bring down the union, and how the union and its opponents wrestled with charges of anti-Semitism

Cataloging source

E7B

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography