Series III: Other Educational Advocacy

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1965

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2006

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1965

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1965

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2006

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{"value"=>"<p>This series includes correspondence, planning documents, and position papers of various organizations of which Edwards was involved. Organizations represented in this series (with Edwards' role in parenthesis) include, Citizens Committee for Effective Education (chairperson); Citizens for Educational Freedom (board of trustees member); Confederation for Action on Integrated Quality Education (officer at large); East Harlem Coalition for Community Control (coordinator); East Harlem Task Force for Quality Education (co-chairperson); East Harlem Union for Equal Achievement in Schools; Harlem Community Neighborhood Based Alliance (co-chairperson); Harlem Education Roundtable (board president and chairperson); Harlem Parents Committee; Harlem Parents Committee Community Referral Center (coordinator); and Massive Economic Neighborhood Development Inc. (educational director).</p> <p>Of special interest is Edwards' 1975 address on behalf of Citizens Committee for Effective Education to the New York State Board of Regents. In the address, \"Education Vouchers for Blacks and Hispanics,\" Edwards states her argument in favor of education vouchers.</p> <p>Also of note is a file on the People's Board of Education, which includes the group's proposal for a community school district, and meeting minutes from their December 1966 action at the New York City Board of Education meeting in Brooklyn.</p>"}

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4 Boxes

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1. Black Education Ad Hoc Media Group
2. Board of Education Parent Outreach and Involvement Advisory Committee
3. Citizens' Committee for Effective Education [4/1]
4. Citizens for Educational Freedom
5. City-Wide Coalition for Community Control
6. Committee of Community Schools
7. Community Board 5
8. Community Board 10
9. Confederation for Action on Integrated Quality Education
10. Conferences and Speaking Engagements
11. Council of Parent Association Presidents in Community School District Five
12. Delta Sigma Theta Scholarship Committee
13. East Harlem Coalition for Community Control of Schools
14. East Harlem Community Corporation
15. East Harlem Federation Youth Association
16. East Harlem People's Local School Board
17. East Harlem School District
18. East Harlem Task Force for Quality Education
19. Empowerment Zone [3/1]
20. Fordham University--School of Education at Lincoln Center (Evaluations)
21. Forms
22. Group Relations Ongoing Workshops (GROW)
23. HARCOMM - Community Health and Education Collaborative
24. Harlem Community Neighborhood Based Alliance
25. Harlem Council for Quality Education
26. Harlem Education Roundtable [5/1]
27. Harlem Parents Committee [8/1]
28. Harlem Youth Consortium
29. Knickerbocker Creative Theatre Foundation
30. Location Education Committee (215 West 125th Street)
31. Legal Aid Society
32. Malcolm-King College Extension
33. MEND (Massive Economic Neighborhood Development)
34. National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks
35. National Urban Coalition - Urban Education Task Force
36. P.A.C.E.--Title III (Projects to Advance Creativity in Education)
37. People Against Racism in Education
38. People's Board of Education
39. Study Commission on Undergraduate Education and the Education of Teachers
40. Task Force on Supplementary Education
41. Union for Equal Achievement in Schools
42. Union of Concerned Parents
43. United Federation of Black Community Organizations (UFBCO)
44. Urban Education Task Force (Meeting) Etc
45. Workshops