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  1. A discussion about the American educational system
    A discussion about the American educational system

    with Sandra Feldman, Floyd Flake, Bret Schundler and more on Jun 17, 1998

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Sandra Feldman (October 13, 1939 - September 19, 2005) was an American civil rights activist, educator and labor leader who served as president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1997 to 2004.

During her early years in the civil rights movement, Feldman worked to integrate Howard Johnson’s restaurants in Maryland. She soon became employment committee chairwoman of the Congress of Racial Equality in Harlem. While in graduate school, Feldman worked as a fourth grade teacher and joined the AFT. In 1966 Feldman was hired by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) as a field representative, and she eventually became its executive director and then secretary in 1983. Feldman was elected to president of the UFT in 1986.

In May 1997, Feldman was elected to the AFL-CIO executive council and appointed to the executive council’s executive committee. When Feldman became the president of the AFT in July 1998, she was the union’s first female president since 1930.

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