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NEA-Retired members gather in their first-ever Virtual Annual Meeting

On August 26, 1920, after 72 years of marching, picketing, and protesting for the right to vote, suffragists celebrated as the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, enshrining American women’s right to vote.

The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly on Thursday, and it's up to educators everywhere to make sure it chooses the correct path.

The first-ever NEA Representative Assembly to be held online kicked off today with messages of courage and conviction delivered directly to delegates’ homes with the same energy and emotion as if given onstage in a packed convention center before thousands of delegates.

Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) professor David Schneider's student-centered approach inspires his NEA Higher Ed colleagues, who selected him as the 2019 Higher Educator of the Year.

In his final address to a NEA Representative Assembly (RA), outgoing NEA Executive Director John Stocks on Friday exhorted RA delegates to “come together and make this country whole,” and, most of all, “to embrace [their] power.”

1964 Freedom Summer participant and surviving member of 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike among recipients.

Hundreds of RA delegates join professional artists to create and contribute to graphic depictions of collective action.

The Stonewall Uprising was the impetus for the formation of the Gay Liberation Front as well as other gay, lesbian and bisexual civil rights organizations.