The National Teachers' Association holds its first convention

The new National Teachers' Association, led by Thomas Valentine, and founded the year before, held its first annual meeting in Cincinnati. In 1870 it became the National Education Association. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1859 (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1859), 371.
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    Education/Culture
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