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February Newsletter Highlights:
NEA Celebrates Black History Month
And you should too!
No matter the decade, public education has faced its serious and existential challenges. Since its inception in 1857, the National Education Association has been an advocate for educators and students, regardless of race. We look back upon the NEA’s centuries old commitment to racial equality with respect and renewed commitment in our present circumstances.
1865: NTA President J.P. Wilkersham denounces slavery and recommends that no seceded states be readmitted to the Union until they agree to provide a free public school system for Black as well as white children.
1926: NEA joined with the American Teachers Association (ATA), whose members were primarily Black, to push for accreditation for schools with black students.
1954: In response, NEA established a $1 million fund to “protect and promote the professional, civil, and human rights of educators,” as legal defense for wrongfully terminated Black teachers.
1966: NEA and ATA agree to merge at the 1966 Representative Assembly to be a fully- desegregated union of educators.
Martin Luther King, Jr., reminds us that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Read more in our February Newsletter (reminder - only GEA members have access to the newsletter)
