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Melvyn Aaronson, April 2, 1986
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Irving Adler, Jul 10, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Unemployed Teachers Assoication, trade unionism history, and the NLB.
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George Altomare, Aug 1985 and Aug 1995, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Teachers Guild in 1950s and the UFT in 1960.
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John Bailey, Dec 30, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include merger, UFT organizing, and the 1962 election
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Yetta Barsh, Nov 21, 1986, inclusive
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Discussion of the UFT in late 1960s-1980s.
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Simon Beagle, Dec 1982 - Aug 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, the UFT and Vietnam, John Dewey, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Communist Party.
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Mayor Abraham Beame, Oct 28, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include budget office during the 1940s-60s, strike, fiscal budget, mayoralty, and the labor movies of the 1980s.
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Sanford Blair, Apr 4, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include collective bargaining, Al Shanker, picketing, organizing the UFT, and democracy.
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Eugene Blum, Mar 25, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include colleagues' resistance to organizing and Al Shanker.
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Charles Cogen, Jul 9, 1985 - Oct 26, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Communist opposition, presidencies, collective bargaining, AFT history, strike, and merger.
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Rita Cohen, Apr 17, 1991, inclusive
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Colby, Jun 27, 1989, inclusive
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Ben Davidson, Aug 19-20, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include criticism of Linville-Lefkowitz group, union relation to larger community, and the executive director of Liberal Party.
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Jeannette DiLorenzo, Oct 19, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild's evolution and strike, bargaining coalition, and the evolution of the UFT.
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Nathan Fein, Oct 21, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism, restructuring the union in 1935, David Selden, and Al Shanker
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George Fesko, Feb 27, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include teaching, strikes, decentralization, and the UFT financial crisis of the 1970s.
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Ray Frankel, Feb 17, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild, the UFT's origins, and strike efficacy.
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Samuel Friedman, Jan 6, 1987, inclusive
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Friedman discusses his life as a socialist.
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Tess Gloster, Sep 26, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, elitism, and grievances.
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August Gold, Jul 11, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild and the UFT and socialism.
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Interview Summary and "The Board of Examiners vs. The Right To Think: The Case of August B. Gold"
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Edward Gottlieb, Feb 1986 - Mar 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the Linville administration, the Great Depression, militant activities in the 1940s, collective bargaining, and integration.
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Louis Gregory, Feb 13, 1986, inclusive
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Interview includes discussion of Jamaica Evening High strike.
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Allen Griggs, May 23, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include collective bargaining and grievance activity.
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John Hagan, Feb 19, 1986, inclusive
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Interview includes discussion of Teachers Guild in the 1950s.
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Louis Hay, Oct 31 - Nov 1, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism, democratization committee, and consulting work.
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Velma Hill, Jun 1986 - Nov 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include integration, Congress of Racial Equality, and the Career Ladder Program.
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Ponsie Hillman, Feb 25, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include segregation, World War II, and joining the UFT.
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Hy Hirsch, May 28, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism in 1920s, factionalism, the progressive caucus, the Dewey Commission, the CIO, and militancy in the 1950s.
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Historical Documents
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Two folders of contextual documents created by the UFT or otherwise pertaining to labor or teaching. One folder pertains to interviewee Louis Hay.
Sidney Hook-- Interview Summary, Oct 17, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Communism in UFT and Dewey.
Solomon Jaffe, Nov 9, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include collective bargaining, Al Shanker, and the Special Education Program.
Interview with Steve Cole.
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Benjamin Kaplan, Jan 27, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include eligibles committee and collective bargaining.
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Israel Kugler, Nov 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, community college movement, and collective bargaining.
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Abe Levine, Dec 24, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include 1950s generation and organization.
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Sol Levine, Feb 18, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include UFT organization, caucus, politics, and CAR.
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Martin Lobenthal, Jul 16, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild and the UFT from 1947 to 1971.
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Rubin Maloff, Jan 30, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild, Communists in school, "business union," and bargaining.
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Jack Mandel, Oct 11 and Oct 18, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include teaching during the 1940s through 1950s, salary, collective bargaining, strike, and supervising the in union.
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Alice Marsh, July 5, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include activities from 1939 to 1960 and paraprofessionals.
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Fred Nauman-- Interview Summary, Mar 24, 1986 - Apr 1, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects include joining union during the 1950s, decentralization, demonstration districts, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville.
John O'Neill, Oct 27, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects include organizing in the 1960s, Vietnam, and paraprofessionals.
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Roger Parente, Aug 22, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the High School Teachers Association, a 1959 strike, and merger.
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Milton Pincus, Apr 7, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the Teachers Guild in the 1950s, merger, and bargaining.
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Larry Robbins, Mar 28, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include the creation of the UFT, merger, goals, and strikes.
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Bayard Rustin, Oct 29, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, Communism and unions, assimilation, and paraprofessionals.
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Dan Sanders, Nov 15, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include organizing the Teachers Guild and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Strike
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David Selden, Jun 29 1986 and Mar 19 1990, inclusive
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Recording of UFT Event.
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Al Shanker, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include new teachers' union negotiations and struggles with Board of Education.
Interview by Neil M. Cowan.
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Morris Shapiro, Jun 12, 1986, inclusive
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Discussion includes comparison of the trade teacher versus the academic teacher.
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Rose Shapiro, Aug 7, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, the Parent Teachers Association, the United Parents Association, the Public Education Association, and Al Shanker.
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Harold Siegel, Oct 11, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, the United Parents Organization, and the Board of Education secretary.
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Fanny Simon, Dec 25, 1985 - Jan 1, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, unionizing, Communism, radicalism during the Great Depression, Linville, the 1935 split of the Teachers Union and Teachers Guild, and AFT presidents.
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Rebecca Simonson, Jun 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Communism during the 1950s, federal aid, segregation, and integration.
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Adolf Stone, Dec 23, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include substitute teaching and union motivation.
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Morris Sukenik, Jun 21, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include socialism, collective bargaining, and Al Shanker.
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Robert Wagner, Nov 1986 - Dec 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include relationship with the Teachers Movement, Communist witch-hunt, trade union community, and the history of liberalism.
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Samuel Wallach, Oct 17, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include union activity during the 1930s, Wallach, and anti-Communist witch-hunts.
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Sarah Wiener, Aug 20, 1986, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Communism, decentralization, and the Retired Teachers Chapter.
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Ella Wolfe, Aug 17, 1985, inclusive
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Subjects discussed include Communism, pacifism, and the Soviet Union.