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Leigh Nida – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines what professional organizations, specifically the American Teachers Association (ATA) and the National Education Association (NEA), communicated with their members about participatory democracy in the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1968. Major publications of the ATA and the NEA as well as archival records of the NEA-ATA Joint…
Descriptors: Professional Associations, Democracy, Civil Rights, Teacher Associations
Brensilver Berman, Stacie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study examines the movement to integrate LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer) history into high school US history courses. Using such primary sources as government documents, classroom resources, and organizational agendas, and oral history interviews with teachers, gay rights activists, and scholars, the study probes grassroots…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, High Schools, History Instruction, United States History
Montgomery, Jennifer J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation examines state-level efforts to mandate the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools, especially following 9/11. Despite longstanding Supreme Court precedent declaring mandatory flag salutes unconstitutional, various state legislatures sought to institute or strengthen pledge mandates irrespective of students' civil liberties.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Case Studies, State Legislation, Patriotism