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"Making Democracy Real": Teacher Union and Community Activism To Promote Diversity in the New York City Public Schools, 1935-1950

Examines how an interracial coalition of radical teachers from the Teachers Union of New York City and community activists from Harlem promoted black history and intercultural curriculum and collaborated with parents for school reform during the 1930s-40s. Their efforts to develop more culturally responsive schools were derailed in the late 1940s by the red-baiting of progressive scholars and teacher union activists during the cold war. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Johnson, Lauri
• Date Published: Nov
• Journal/Secondary Title: Urban Education
• Number: 5
• Volume: 37
• Year: 2002

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Community
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: Practices: Diversity Practices
• Subject: Black History
• Subject: Community Action
• Subject: Culturally Relevant Education
• Subject: Diversity (Student)
• Subject: Educational History
• Subject: Elementary Secondary Education
• Subject: Multicultural Education
• Subject: Public Schools
• Subject: Unions
• Subject: Urban Schools

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