Teachers
Associations
Arkansas
The State Teachers Association of Arkansas, later named the Arkansas Teachers Association, was founded in 1898 on the campus of Branch Normal College, formally known as the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. The purpose of the association was to foster a professional network of teachers who could facilitate the implementation of better conditions for the education of black children which included creating better school buildings, better equipment, more adequately prepared teachers, and better health and educational welfare for black people. The association merged in 1969 with the Arkansas Education Association.
History of the Arkansas Teachers Association
By Thomas E. Patterson
Published 1981 by the National Education Association
Bulletin of the Arkansas Teachers Association Vol. 15, No. 1 (gut50000c04071)
Bulletin of the Arkansas Teachers Association Vol. 13, No. 3 (gut50000c04070)
Bulletin of the Arkansas Teachers Association Vol. 34, No. 1 (gut50000c04059)
Bulletin of the Arkansas Teachers Association Vol. 28, No. 2 (gut50000c04095)
Headquarters
924 Ringo Street Little Rock, Arkansas
1306 Wright Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas 72206
Organization Name
- State Teachers Association of Arkansas, 1898 - 1931
- Association of Teachers of Negro Youth in Arkansas, 1931-1938
- Arkansas Teachers Association, 1938 - 1969
Publication
- The Journal, 1928 – 1930
- The Bulletin, 1930 – 1969
Executive Secretaries
- Samuel Paul Nelson (1927-1931)
- Ada M. Harrison Woodard (1931-1934)
- Mrs. I.A. Clark (1936-1940)
- Sadie Thomason Johnson (1940-1950)
- Frank W. Smith (1950-1956)
- Tandy Washington Coggs (1956-1961)
- Thomas E. Patterson (1962-1969)
Presidents
- Joseph Carter Corbin (1898-1904)
- Wiley Welch (1904-1906)
- J.E. Knox (1906-1908)
- A.W. Johnson (1908-1910)
- Henry Herbert Johnson (1910-1912)
- William Townsend (1912-1914)
- Henry Clay Yerger (1914-1916)
- John Wesley Brooks (1916-1918)
- Paris Joseph Van Pelt (1918-1919)
- Mary Harris Spight/Speight (1919-1920)
- Rufus Charles Childress (1920-1923)
- Samuel Paul Nelson (1923-1926)
- C. S. Woodard (1926-1929)
- Anna Mae Pascal Strong (1929-1930)
- N.F. Jackson (1930-1933)
- James E. Wallace (1933-1934)
- Charles L. Williams (1934-1936)
- W. J. C. Hunter (1936-1938)
- Tandy Washington Coggs (1938-1940)
- Richard C. Caesar (1940-1942)
- Floyd Brown (1942-1944)
- R. N. Chaney (1944-1946)
- John Henry White (1946-1950)
- Elza Harris Hunter (1950-1951)
- B.G. Williams (1951-1953)
- Leroy M. Christophe (1953-1954)
- George Spencer Ivory (1954-1955)
- Alexander W. Cann (1955-1956)
- C.S. Smith (1956-1957)
- Vivian Evadna Tate Hegwood (1957-1958)
- Elijah Coleman (1958-1960)
- Vivian Evadna Tate Hegwood (1960-1962)
- Nexton Philip Marshall (1962-1964)
- Edwin Luther Hawkins, Sr. (1964-1966)
- Walter Lee Littlejohn (1966-1968)
- York Wayland Williams, Jr. (1968-1969)
More Resources
- Encyclopedia of Arkansas. (n.d.). Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved May 14, 2023, from https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/arkansas-teachers-association-2168/
Kirk, J. A. (2011). - Not Quite black and White: School Desegregation in Arkansas, 1954-1966. The Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 70(3), 225–257. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23193404
- Patterson, T. E., & National Education Association of the United States issuing body. (1981). History of the Arkansas Teachers Association. National Education Association.
- Stephan, A. S., & Hicks, C. A. (1955). Integration and Segregation in Arkansas--One Year Afterward. The Journal of Negro Education, 24(3), 172. https://doi.org/10.2307/2293450
- Smith, C. Calvin, & Jackson, Linda Walls (Eds.). (2005). Educating the Masses The Unfolding History of black School Administrators in Arkansas, 1900-2000. University of Arkansas Press.