A Visible Company of Professionals - African Americans and the National Education Association During the Civil Rights Movement - Bok av Carol F. Kar
African American educators shaped a role for themselves in the larger civil rights movement by striving for inclusion, on equal footing, in the National Education Association (NEA). This book explores the relationship between the NEA, the nation¿s largest teacher organization, and the predominately black American Teachers Association, and illustrates how African American educators helped to redefine the NEA¿s core ideology to include the support of policies, practice, and politics that promoted..