Joan-Marie Shelley oral history
Scope and Contents
Sound recording of interview with Joan-Marie Shelley conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Describes her involvement with school unions, 1955-1970, and her rise to become president of the United Educators of San Francisco in 1984; discusses her views on bilingual education, violence in schools, the California Teachers Association, and the American Federation of Teachers,, as well as the influence of her father, former San Francisco mayor John Francis Shelley; synoptic index available.
Dates
- 1993 March 9-April 1
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biography
President, United Educators of San Francisco; officer, American Federation of Teachers; worked as a high school teacher for nearly thirty years at Lincoln and Lowell high schools.
Extent
3 audio cassettes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Sound recording of interview with Joan-Marie Shelley conducted by Adah Bakalinsky. Describes her involvement with school unions, 1955-1970, and her rise to become president of the United Educators of San Francisco in 1984; discusses her views on bilingual education, violence in schools, the California Teachers Association, and the American Federation of Teachers,, as well as the influence of her father, former San Francisco mayor John Francis Shelley; synoptic index available.
Acquisition Information
Interview conducted by Adah Bakalinsky, 1993.
- American Federation of Teachers
- Audiocassettes.
- Bakalinsky, Adah
- Labor unions -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
- Oral histories.
- Teachers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.
- Teachers' unions -- California -- History.
- United Educators of San Francisco
- Women in the labor movement -- California.
- Women labor leaders -- California -- Interviews.
- Title
- Joan-Marie Shelley Oral History
- Author
- Finding aid created by Labor Archives and Research Center staff.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in: English.
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu