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1944 (aged 88–89) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Spouse. Dr. William Davis. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis (1855-1944) [2] was an African-American teacher and activist. She was responsible for forming the Phyllis Wheatley Women's Club in Chicago, Illinois in 1900. Over the course of her life, she participated and contributed to the advancement of African ...
General meeting, National Education Association on July 3, 1916, at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States. [2] It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and ...
Website. ctulocal1.org. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is a labor union that represents teachers, paraprofessionals, and clinicians in the Chicago public school system. The union has consistently fought for improved pay, benefits, and job security for its members, and it has resisted efforts to vary teacher pay based on performance evaluations.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is the second largest teacher's labor union in America (the largest being the National Education Association). The union was founded in Chicago . John Dewey and Margaret Haley were founders.
Elizabeth Stubbs Davis. William Boyd Allison Davis (October 14, 1902 – November 21, 1983) was an American educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar who became the second African American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, after only Dr ...
Education. Cornell University (BS) Yeshiva University (JD) Rhonda " Randi " Weingarten (born December 18, 1957) [1] is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. She has been president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) since 2008, and is a member of the AFL-CIO. She is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers.
Frances Willard. Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next ...
October 11, 1991. Normal School for Colored Girls (now known as University of the District of Columbia) was established in Washington, D.C. in 1851 as an institution of learning and training for young African-American women, especially to train teachers. [2][3] As Miner Normal School, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.