San Francisco: Bay Area Teachers' Organizing Collective. This issue of BARTOC's journal features an editorial on "The Politics of Teachers' Lives, articles on the many problems in a Portland free school for five and six-year-olds and in a tutorial school program; an excerpt from a letter by BARTOC member Patricia..... More
[Havana, Cuba?]: Cuban Revolutionary Government, [196-?]. Photo-illustrated propaganda from the Cuban government emphasizes the importance of education in the pursuit of socialism. 85 black & white photographs depict men, women, and children engaged in educational pursuits in a variety of context (e.g., guerrillas, schools, agricultural settings, etc.). Sporadic captions in..... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1971. Third printing. A pamphlet by Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade on the history and application of sensitivity training, which "aims to destroy the traditional Hebraic-Christian morality of America." Stapled wrappers, 40 pp. A near fine copy. More
Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, Inc., 1971. A report by the Southern Regional Council on school desegregation for 1970-71. "The report begins with a general appraisal of school desegregation in the region and concludes with a discussion by four black high school students who explain in concrete, specific terms what their..... More
Boston: Committee for Decent Education, 1975. A poster calling for a school strike in opposition to Phase 2 of Judge Garrity's busing plan during the Boston busing crisis. After finding Boston's public school system segregated in a 1974 ruling, Garrity began the unpopular process of a racial rebalancing of Boston's..... More
Illinois: Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Illinois, 1971. Stapled wrappers, vii, 5 pp. A near fine copy. More
New York: Workers Library Publishers, Inc., 1939. On the importance of Marxist theory in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the Workers School. Stapled wrapers, 15 pp. A near fine copy. More
Cincinnati, Ohio: Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society, [1905]. A pamphlet issued by the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education Society to commemorate their 40th anniversary. Included are a hymn and responsive reading; a statement to be read by the pastor; A Fortieth Anniversary Catechism consisting of a three-part call-and-response by..... More
New Orleans: The Independent American, 1970. A right wing pamphlet on the implementation of forced integration, which is "threatening the ultimate destruction of the public school system." Brochure format printed in red & black, 8 panels. John Birch Society bookstore stamp to the front cover. More
New York: The Robin Hood Relearning Company, 1969. The Robin Hood Relearning Company was an alternative education consulting and training group founded in the spring of 1969 by Centers for Change (CFC). CFC emerged from the short-lived IF...THEN group established by City of College New York professor, Fred Newman, who..... More
New York: International Pamphlets, 1934. A discussion of the crisis in public education, in which teachers are paid unfair wages, workers' children and African Americans have far fewer educational opportunities, propaganda is taught in schools, etc. Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 46 pp., tables. Rubbing to wrappers, a few marks in colored..... More
[Glen Alpine, North Carolina]: [Published by the author], ©1959. A defense of segregation by the North Carolina educator who admits that much remains to be done to ensure equality for African Americans, but which "cannot be accomplished by forced association or bludegeoned good-will" (p. [10]). Zeb Vance Kitchin Dickson was..... More
New York: Teachers College Press, 1969. A monograph (the fifth in a series) on Tanzania's educational policy. Stapled wrappers, xi, 39 pp. A near fine copy. More
Kilmarnock, Va. The Patrick Henry Press, Inc., [1968]. "This booklet is planned to give parents and teachers a clear picture of what they may expect from public-school desegregation. Section I deals with intelligence differences in Negro and White children. Section II gives examples of classroom desegregation in practice. Section III..... More
Santa Barbara: Dawn, 1915. An issue of this little magazine founded in late 1913 as The Germ by the millionaire social reformer, educator, and Renaissance Man, Prince (later Pryns, Prynce) Charles Hopkins (1885-1970). In January 1914, the magazine was renamed The Dawn (due to readers' dislike for the disease-sounding name)..... More
Boston: New England Free Press, [1968?]. On the liberation of children from oppressive, traditional education models. First published as an article in the Washington University journal freelance, Vol. 6, No. 2, culled from the author's talks at the same university on November 14, 1967. Folded, unbound sheets (11" x 8..... More
Jefferson City, Missouri: The Human Rights Committee, Missouri Association for Social Welfare, 1953. A study designed to appeal to the Missouri taxpayer who the committee estimates would save $30,000,000 over six years by integrating Missouri schools instead of chasing a more expensive "separate-but-equal" policy (which has failed to provide equal..... More
[1926-27]. A photo album / scrapbook compiled by Mary Jane Irvine (Markey) (1908-1994) during her senior year (1926-27) at Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO, the second oldest women’s college in the U.S. The album includes approximately 200 photographs, newspaper clippings, and other related ephemera primarily depicting Irvine’s social..... More
Pittsburgh, Pa. KNOW, Inc., 1973. Side-stapled 11” x 8 ½” sheets, 10 p. More
[New York City]: Committee for Defense of Public Education, 1941. An illustrated book published as a fundraiser for the legal defense of the more than fifty City College of New York (CCNY) faculty and staff members dismissed following the Rapp-Coudert investigation into subversive activities within the New York education system..... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1973. A pamphlet by the veteran black Communist reprinting three articles on education and racism: Education Against Racism in the German Democratic Republic; Racist Indoctrination in West Germany; and Racism in U.S. School Textbooks. In his introduction, Lightfoot explains the pamphlet’s intent “to create an..... More
Washington, D. C. Business and Professional Women's Foundation, 1970. Summary of research by Dr. Lawrence Alan Simpson under a grant of the Lena Lake Forrest Fellowship. Stapled wrappers, [8] p. a fine copy. More
[Pittsburgh?]: 1970. An in-depth report by the University Committee for Women's Rights (UCWR) documenting its first year of existence as it struggled to challenge sexist policies at the University of Pittsburgh. Sections on salary discrimination, the treatment of women students and faculty, the composition of the administration and the staff..... More
Tulsa: Christian Crusade Publications, 1973. Second printing. The research director for Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade documents the deleterious effects of school busing "in the interests of some idiotic invention called racial balance" (p. 32). Stapled, illustrated wrappers, 32 p. A fine copy. More