Chicago: Teachers for Integrated Schools, 1962. A small format pamphlet arguing in favor of integrating Chicago’s school system. The pamphlet begins with open letters to Chicagoans and Mayor Daley on the inequality and destructiveness of segregation before describing the ghetto schools that are underfunded, overcrowded, staffed by substitute teachers, with..... More
[San Diego]: The San Diego Union, [1970]. Originally published as a five-part series in The San Diego Union, Betts, a British-born journalist, blames the Communist-inspired New Left for the unrest on American college campuses. He investigates the constellation of student groups, black power organizations, and liberal agencies all infected with..... More
Greenwood, Miss. Citizens' Councils, [ca. 1957]. Excerpts from a Congressional subcommittee report, which finds that “the integrated school system in the District of Columbia cannot be copied by those who seek an orderly and successful school operation.” Some of the issues discussed in the report include white flight, the cognitive..... 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
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
Cambridge: Boston Women's Teachers' Group, Inc., 1986. This issue devoted to standardization. See photo for full Contents list. Stapled, glossy wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 40 p., illus. Rubbing, creasing to wrappers, some soiling to fore-edge and a few penned words to rear wrapper. More