(Hagopian, 2012)
“When America’s great crisis is a story in the pages of history, there will be a significant chapter devoted to the unfailing sacrifice of the Chicago teachers, who are now carrying on under almost inconceivable difficulties, far beyond the point which might be fairly considered the limit of human endurance.” (NEA Journal, 1933, as qtd in Lyons, 2008)
Chicago teachers went on strike during the Great Depression as municipal funding dried up and wages were severely cut. As one of the first teachers’ strikes in America, its success became a model for teachers' communication across the U.S. In the process, the Chicago Teachers Union was formed, inspiring decades of teachers’ strikes to come.
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