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Box 2

 Container

Contains 137 Results:

A Happy Summer to All From the Teachers Union to the School Staffs. Staff and students carry suitcases labeled with European city names [small coffee stain at bottom of page]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 136
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

A very large Abraham Lincoln in the shadows behind a white and black student walking together [Must for tonight]. Digital only. Original returned to Mr. Kassoy.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 137
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

A finger flips the voting lever under the choice Save our Schools

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

In Protective Custody, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

October 06, 1951. A police officer stands over the tattered remains of the Bill of Rights while the Constitution looks on from its cell

Dates: 1951

Its Later than you Think, 1950

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

March 25, 1950. A "reactionary 'vet'" in full uniform, representing mainly the American Legion, with money symbols on his patches, puts his arm around a bigot's shoulder, while the bigot sharpens his witch-hunting blade.

Dates: 1950

Achieve Unity by September!, 1951

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

June 23, 1951. A thumb-down hand reads, "United Teacher Organizations" while a man wearing a shirt reading "Threats, Coercion" pickets for more work and no pay. This is a dramatic call for united action by the different teacher organizations to achieve unity for their common goals by September against the enemies of education using threats and coercion to degrade the wages and condition of teachers.

Dates: 1951

Quiet! Board at Work, 1954

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

September 11, 1954. A man looks through a microscope at a dot on his desk, "RED" written next to it, while on a blackboard behind him, in big letters is written, "Overcrowding, low salaries, dilapidated buildings, inadequate supplies, delinquency, worn-out texts, reading defects, delayed entrance age.". While all these problems remain unattended to, the Board of Education is shown concentrating on the discovery of a "red."

Dates: 1954

A teacher tells a child before he can enroll in school, he must promise he is not a member of the Communist Party

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962

A hand of bones signs the name, Harvey Dexter White Lawrence Duggan Minnie Lutride

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Drawings depicting issues facing teachers and teachers' unions including anti-Communist struggles, and issues of employment, pay, facilities, and government aid to schools.

Dates: 1900-1962