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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles Collection
Creator:
Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles
Collection
Identifier/Call Number: URB.ATOLA
Extent:
2.09 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1944-1972
Date (bulk): 1952-1972
Abstract: The
Affiliated
Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles Collection
documents the teaching career of
Harold Corbin, as well as political and social issues relevant to education in the greater
Los Angeles Area, from 1944 through 1972. The organizations represented in this collection
include: the Association of Classroom Teachers, Los Angeles, the American Federation of
Teachers, the Affiliated Teachers of Los Angeles, the California Teachers Association, the
Los Angeles Teachers Association, the Los Angeles Unified School District, the National
Education Association, North Hollywood High School, the Professional Educators of Los
Angeles, the Secondary Teachers Organization of Los Angeles, and United Teachers Los
Angeles.
Language of Material: English
Harold Corbin began his teaching career as a Physics, Chemistry, and Math teacher at North
Hollywood High School in 1933. Corbin earned permanent status with the Los Angeles Unified
School District in 1939. Numerous teacher organizations existed in Los Angeles in the 1930s.
Over time, these disparate groups joined together to form a federation called the Affiliated
Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles (ATOLA).
Corbin joined ATOLA during the 1946-1947 academic year. He was Vice-President of the
organization for three years and served as a delegate to many conventions. He was also a
member of the Merger Committee, responsible for writing the proposal to combine the LATA and
ATOLA. The Associated Classroom Teachers of Los Angeles (ACTLA) was a by-product of these
initial merger attempts. In 1970, ACTLA and AFT Local 1021 merged, there being a National
Education Association (NEA)/California Teachers Association (CTA) local and an
AFT/California Federation of Teachers (CFT) local.
Seventy-five percent of ATOLA's members were classroom teachers. Its policy-making and
governing body was the Representative Council, consisting of one representative for each 100
members in a department. All certified personnel, regardless of position, were united as
members of the teaching profession through this Council. ATOLA's Board of Directors,
selected by the Representative Council, was responsible for the organization's
administrative functions. The structure resembled that of the Los Angeles school system,
where unity and diversity were (and continue to be) important attributes.
ATOLA combined six affiliated associations under a federation-type organization. The
Affiliation also maintained direct relations with fourteen or more autonomous organizations
representing various professional levels and interests in the Los Angeles Unified School
District. The primary mission of ATOLA was to advance and raise the standards for the
general welfare of schools and teaching profession, as well as to promote cooperation and
understanding between the teaching profession and the community.
The
Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles Collection
consists of organizational documents, reports, newsletters and newspapers, correspondence,
union negotiation records, audio recordings and ephemera related to the teaching career and
professional life of Harold Corbin. The collection is especially conducive to the study of
teacher organizations, unions, and the merging of education related groups. This collection
consists of a subject file sorted alphabetically according to the professional organization
which created the records.
Related Material
The collection is open for research use.
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge.
Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires
the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Harold Corbin, 03/22/1982
For information about citing items in this collection consult the appropriate style manual,
or see the
Citing Archival Materials
guide.
Robert G. Marshall and Elda I. Arrieta, October 1991
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Documents
Audiovisual materials