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Education Advocacy |
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Impact on
Education
Key negotiator for the ASTA leading
up to the merger with the AEA, and
subsequently serves as Associate Executive
Secretary of the Alabama Education
Association (AEA) to this date.
Served as Executive Secretary of
the Alabama State Teachers Association from
1964 to 1969, where he became nationally
known as a champion of employee rights.
National
Co-Chairman of the Committee of Educators
for the Humphrey-Muskie ticket in 1968
presidential campaign. He shared this honor
with Irva Mae Applegate, of Princeton,
Minnesota who was President of the National
Education Association, and Dean of the
School of Education at St. Cloud State
College (now University)
Chairman,
Alabama League for the Advancement of
Education.
Served as a delegate to the National
Education Association (NEA)
Delegate to the
NEA 1972 Constitutional Convention. Member
of Drafting Committee.
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Member of the NEA DuShane Committee on
Teachers Rights for six years, serving as
chairman and also consultant.
Past Chairman, NAACP Committee on Education
in Alabama.
Recipient, NEA’s Abraham Lincoln Award,
1968, “for courageous action in the pursuit
of educational opportunity for all people.”
Initiated report issued by Alabama League
for the Advancement of Education, “The Slow
Death of the Black Educator in Alabama,”
which disclosed the discrimination against
black educators in the wake of school
desegregation in Alabama in 1970.
In 1985, drafted a plan which provided for
two majority black district on the
eight-member State Board of Education, which
resulted in Alabama electing its first two
blacks on the State Board of Education since
1874.
Successfully
fought to eliminate the misuse of culturally
biased testing against students and teachers
– the ACT, TE, and the Alabama Exit Exam.
Fought relentlessly to protect black
teachers from wholesale discrimination and
to convince white teachers that they, also,
had professional and legal rights.
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