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In 1880, 28 education advocates met in the hall of the North Carolina House of Representatives in Raleigh to establish the North Carolina Teachers Association (NCTA). J.E. O’Hara and J.H. Harris called the first convention to gather teachers in the state of North Carolina to form the association. The purpose of the association was to promote the “educational progress among Negros of the state.” North Carolina Teachers Association (NCTA) merged in 1970 with the all white predecessor North Carolina Association of Educators (NCEA).

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North Carolina History

History of the North Carolina Teachers Association

By Percy E. Murray

Published 1984

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Association Names

  • Freedmen’s Education Association (1866-1880)
  • North Carolina Teachers Association (1880-1930)
  • North Carolina Negro Teachers Association (1930-1947)
  • North Carolina Teachers Association (1947-1970)

Publications

  • The Progressive Educator (1888-?)
  • North Carolina Teachers Record (published from 1930-1970)
  • NCACT Newsletter (1954-1967)
  • Handbook for Local, District, and State Associations (first published in 1965)
  • Hot Line (first published in 1969)

Presidents

  • George C. Shaw (1911)
  • Simon Green Atkins (1927-1929)
  • William Sherman Turner (1929-1930)
  • George E. Davis (1930-1932)
  • O. R. Pope (1933)
  • John Henry Bias (1934-1935)
  • Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1935-1936)
  • James E. Shepard (1937-1939)
  • Rose Douglas Aggrey (1940-1941)
  • James Ward Seabrook (1941-1943)
  • James A. Tarpley (1943-1945)
  • Harold L. Trigg (1945-1946)
  • James T. Taylor (1946-1948)
  • Hugh V. Brown (1948-1950)
  • Albert H. Anderson (1950-1952)
  • Clinton L. Blake (1952-1954)
  • Ida H. Duncan (1954-1956)
  • Sidney D. Williams (1956-1958)
  • Carlton J. Barber (1958-1960)
  • William R. Collins (1960-1962)
  • Lafayette Parker (1962-1964)
  • Samuel Edward Duncan (1964-1966)
  • Rudolph Jones (1966-1968)

Executive Secretaries

  • Simon Green Atkins (editor of the Progressive Educator)
  • Charles N. Hunter (editor of The Progressive Educator)
  • James Ward Seabrook (1926-1929)
  • L. S. Cozart (1930-1932)
  • George E. Davis (1932-1943)
  • J. C. Davis (1944)
  • William L. Greene (1945-1961)
  • Charles “A” Lyons, Jr. (1962-1964)
  • Elliott B. Palmer (1964-1970)

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