Box 2
Contains 137 Results:
A hand, labeled justice, is holding scales.
On the left hand side the blocks are named "Scholarship", "Character", "Superior teaching records" and "Parent pleas". On the right hand side of the scale there is a block named "20 year old application", and a finger labeled "Refusal to inform" is pressing down on top of it.
or were you ever?, 1951
October 13, 1951. In the bottom right hand corner a man with the title "Superintendent of Witch Hunts" is consulting a "list of subversives to be questioned" and looking up at three men labeled, "Washington: Leader of the American Revolution", Jefferson: the Declaration of Independence", and Lincoln: the Gettysburg Address". This title is part of the mantra of the investigating committees: "Are you now or were you ever a member of the Communist Party?"
A large thumb labeled Reaction is pressing down on a body labeled Federal Aid.
Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.
A building labeled Free Public Colleges with a bar labeled Tuition, 1960
December 03, 1960. Fees" is fastened by a padlock. There is a man standing on the steps staring at the lock and a dejected looking girl walking away from the building.
For Brotherhood Week: A Tree that must not grow in Brooklyn, 1950
After-School Work-Load, 1959
December 19, 1959. A man is carrying a load of papers on his back, labeled "After-School Work-Load". Individual packets are labeled "Marketing papers", "Help to Individual Pupils", "Preparations", "Department Meetings", "Faculty Meetings", "Special Programs & Events", "Publications". "Dramatics by Class", and "Parent Conferences." In the top left hand corner there are two signs reading P.S. 91 and 3p.m. School's Out!
A man playing a violin is sitting on top of a burning building. Some of the flames are labeled Out-of License Teachers, Subs Leaving, and "Temporary, Fill-in Subs., 1960
October 08, 1960. A school official, quoted in the World Telegram and Sun as saying that "All in all, our schools are in pretty good shape staff wise this fall," is shown "fiddling" while Rome burns in the form of out-of-license teachers and substitutes leaving the system being replaced by temporary, fill-in substitutes.
Mired Down, 1958
May 31, 1958. Man stands up to ankles in water with words such as "Segregation", "Overburdened, Underpaid Teachers", "Poor Equipment" etc A delinquent student is shown mired in the swamp of violence in films, TV and comics, no recreational facilities, overcrowded classes, poor equipment, overburdened, underpaid teachers, underprivileged neighborhoods and the evils of segregation.
Peter and the Dyke. A Modern Fairy Tale, 1958
March 01, 1958. Water labeled "Real School Needs" bursts over the top of a dam on which a member of the Board of Education is writing, "More '600' Schools."
Dont Lower Your Banner, Mr. Mayor, 1954
March 27, 1954. Newly elected New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner is urged by teachers not to abandon his campaign pledges to meet the teachers' salary demands.