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Displayed here are photographs that document days in the life of the NYC Teachers Union -- its struggles and its accomplishments, reprinted with permission from the UFT-Mildred Grossman Collection at Tamiment Library's Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

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 Sign: Dismiss Intolerance and Bigotry, May Quinn TU Protesters Carrying Picket Signs. Leading the Protesters, Sam Wallach. Protesters with Picket Signs Today's children will be the builders of the post-war world. Rose Russell, Sam Wallach and colleagues with Poster Display. War hysteria shown as an octopus smothering school building with tentacles of fear, thought control, coercion, etc.
Teachers Union Meeting, September 1947 Teachers Union Asks for a $1,000 Salary Increase for NY City's Teachers. Union members gather signatures Teachers Union Rally, September 1947. Rose Russell in Albany, February 1947. Rose Russell delivering speech in 1947, with Sam Wallach and Ruby Jackson Gainer
Ruby Jackson Gainer, 1947 Teachers Union Members Governor Dewey, Where is the Pay Increase You Said You Gave Us? Teachers Picket for Higher Pay Celia Lewis Zitron (3rd from Right). Dismissed teacher, Celia Lewis Zitron who wrote, THE NEW YORK CITY TEACHERS UNION: 1916 - 1964.
Circa 1948, Larry Brown, Rose Russell and Paul Robeson at the Annual Teachers Union Educational Conference. L. to R.: TU President (standing) Sam Wallach, Playwright Arthur Miller (sitting) TU President Abe Lederman and Legislative Rep. Rose Russell (both standing). Author Norman Mailer, Rose Russell and Dr. Harlow Shapley, Academic Freedom Rally, October 10, 1948. Restore Real Wages of 1939 Irving Adler, Sam Wallach and Rose Russell, November 23, 1948 Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Walter Rauten-Strauch, and Rose Russell at the 1948 Educational Conference.
Dr. Harlow Shapley and TU Legislative Representative Rose Russell listening to Abe Lederman. Rose Russell speaking with colleague. August 26, 1949 On Trial: Should Teachers' Political Affiliations be Investigated? (WJZ-TV), Judges: Ben Cooper, Dr. Leon Birkhead (yes), Richard____, Harry A. Gair, and Rose Russell. Women Representing the Teachers Union TU President Abe Lederman and Dr. Baer, Award for ''Teachers Who Fight Back.'' TU President Abe Lederman with NYC school children.
Organizers at work TU President Sam Wallach, (fourth from left) and colleagues. Rose Russell (left front), Sam Wallach (right front)and colleagues Teachers and children protesting, 1952 Eight suspended teachers Searchlight
Cyril Graze at podium addressing TU membership. Celia Lewis Zitron at his right. Teachers protesting outside NYC Board of Education. Teachers Protesting Teachers Protesting Teachers protesting outside NYC Board of Education. McCarran, McCarthy, Timone - Hands Off our Schools!
Discussing education issues in NY, April 29, 1955. TU Legislative Rep. Rose Russell, President Abe Lederman, and Secretary Lucile Spence present blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo with award at Annual TU Educational Conference. Rose Russell appearing on TV's NIGHTBEAT with John Wingate. Reading FALSE WITNESS, Teachers Union Member at Hearing. Picketing at Board of Education at 110 Livingston St. 900 Protest Suspension of 8 Teachers.
Protestors picketing outside the NYC Board of Education. Ruby Gainer Jackson speaking, Irving Adler, second from right Teachers Union Meeting. Irving Adler TU President Abraham Lederman and Legislative Representative Rose Russell. Rose Russell and Colleagues
Free Schools Need Free Teachers Dismissed Elementary School Teacher Mildred Flacks. At P.S. 3 the Teachers Union and neighborhood parents campaign together to improve conditions and build new structures to replace crumbling schools. P.S. 20 built in 1869. The Teachers Union campaign for replacing crumbling schools during wartime building ban is successful in getting five new schools built. Banner: Committee Against Discrimination in Education. Materials for Teachers on Intercultural Education.
September 18, 1952, Board of Education ''Give Us Decent Salaries'', Teachers Protest. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Legislative Representative Rose Russell. Leaflets at the Subway. Building Support. April 1949, Rose Russell addressing City College students during Knickerbocker and Davis strikes.
1947, Cyril Graze and Colleagues at Academic Freedom Rally Playwright Arthur Miller addresses the Teachers Union Dec. 18, 1948.        

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