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NEA/NY Audio-Visual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: 6322 AV

Scope and Contents

Thirty-three VHS video cassettes from the 1980s and 1990s. Subjects include interviews, NEA television commercials, Delegate and Representative Assembly footage, addresses by Bill Clinton and Mario Cuomo, rallies, and NEA instructional and informational productions. One video of NEA TV spots includes some Spanish language material.

Dates

  • 1989-1995

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The New York Education Association/New York (NYEA, later NEA/NY) was the product of the tensions between the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). Those tension at the national level were, in turn, a result of the merger of the NEA's New York State Teachers Association (NTSTA) and the AFT's United Teachers of New York (UTNY) to form the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) in 1972. Eventually, in 1976, NYUST disaffiliated from NEA, keeping only its AFT affiliation.

In response to the disaffiliation NEA set up a rival union in New York, NEA/NY, and got some locals to leave NYSUT for the new union. This did not work as well as the NEA leadership had hoped and membership in the new union was stagnant while NYSUT grew. Finally, in 2006, a new merger brought the 35,000 NEA/NY members back into NYSUT.

Extent

1.11 cubic feet

Abstract

These 33 video cassettes were collected by the NEA/NY and range in date from 1984 to 1995, though some of the videos have no date on the box or label. The videos were retained by NYSUT after the 2006 merger and transferred to the Kheel Center in 2011.

Related Materials

Related Collections: 6322: NEA/NY Board of Directors Records

Quantity:

1 linear ft.

Forms of Material:

Articles, reprints, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs.

General

Contact Information:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
Compiled by:
Kheel Staff
EAD encoding:
Randall Miles, January 31, 2012
Title
NEA/NY Audio-Visual Materials
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Kheel Staff
Date
January 23, 2012
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Revision Statements

  • 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall Tower Road
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3183