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“…From its turbulent beginnings in 1916 in Chicago, where the seeds of the movement took root, to the 1961 teacher strike in New York City, which proved the union’s effec­tiveness, the American Federation of Teach­ers union has provided a simulacrum of industrial organizational patterns common to the labor movement in this country. …”

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“…Together, William Randolph Hearst's newspaper chain, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, Robert McCormick's Chicago Tribune, Joe Patterson's New York Daily News, and Cissy Patterson's Washington Times-Herald reached a staggering sixty million people by the late 1930s, and even more during the war that followed. …”

“…Susan Sperry Smith began her career by working in the projects on the West Side of Chicago and teaching first grade. Later, she received her master's degree in Learning Disabilities and eventually taught severely disabled children, ages 6-17, in a small town in Indiana. …”