West Virgnia
The West Virginia State Teachers Association officially began on November 27, 1891 as a “reading circle” in Charleston, Virginia. The purpose of the organization was to train teachers and develop a space where black educators could have their needs articulated and recognized. The association provided a statewide forum where black teachers could consider matters affecting their profession and the education of black youth in West Virginia. The West Virginia State Teachers Association merged shortly after the decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 with the all-white West Virginia Education Association.
History of the West Virginia State Teachers' Association
By Ancella R. Bickley
Published 1979 by the National Education Association of the United States
Bulletin of the West Virginia Teachers' Association Vol. 18, No. 1
Bulletin of the West Virginia Teachers' Association Vol. 20, No. 2
Bulletin of the West Virginia Teachers' Association Vol. 21, No. 1
Bulletin of the West Virginia Teachers' Association Vol. 6, No. 1
Publications
- The Association Bulletin (1929)
- The Bulletin of the West Virginia Teacher Association (1930-1952)
- WVSTA Bulletin (1953-1954)
Executive Secretaries
- Leonard Barnett (1932-1940)
- Myra E. Fairfax (1940-1947)
Presidents
- Byrd Prillerman (1891-1893)
- J. Edwin Campbell (1893-1894)
- Byrd Prillerman (1894-1896)
- Charles W. Bord (1896-1897)
- J. Rupert Jefferson (1897-1898)
- J. W. Scott (1898-1901)
- Hamilton Hatter (1901-1902)
- H. H. Railey (1902-1903)
- Byrd Prillerman (1903-1908)
- Robert P. Sirs (1908-1910)
- E. I. Rand (1910-1912)
- S. L. Wade (1912-1913)
- J. W. Moss (1913-1915)
- Austin W. Curtis (1915-1917)
- J. F. J. Clark (1917-1919)
- H. L. Dickason (1919-1922)
- C. W. Boyd (1922-1923)
- H. D. Hazelwood (1923-1925)
- J. Rupert Jefferson (1925-1926)
- James L. Hill (1926-1927)
- S. H. Guss (1927-1928)
- Leonard Barnett (1928-1929)
- Memphis T. Garrison (1929-1930)
- Emmet Saunders (1930-1931)
- L. A. Toney (1931-1932)
- Ulysses H. Prunty (1932-1933)
- Edward A. Bolling (1933-1934)
- Fred R. Ramer (1934-1935)
- Gregory W. Whiting (1935-1936)
- Irene Moats (1936-1937)
- J. Douglass Anderson (1937-1938)
- Mary L. Williams (1938-1939)
- H. D. Hazelwood (1939-1940)
- Bruce Hull (1940-1941)
- J. H. Franklin (1941-1942)
- Lucie M. Fountain (1942-1943)
- E. C. Smith (1943-1944)
- S. J. Farmer (1944-1946)
- Thomas Ashe (1946-1947)
- E. Garrett Holland (1947-1948)
- Knute Burroughs (1948-1949)
- Andrew H Calloway (1949-1950)
- Allan B. Connolly (1950-1951)
- William J. L. Wallace (1951-1953)
- Aaron Page (1953-1954)
More Resources
- Bickley, A. R. (n.d.). e-WV | West Virginia State Teachers’ Association. The West Virginia Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 4, 2023, from http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/print/Article/1102
- Woodson, C. G. (1922). Early Negro Education in West Virginia. The Journal of Negro History, 7(1), 23–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/2713579