Ramsey County History – Winter 2003: “I Remember the Teachers’ Strike of 1946: ‘We Rolled Down Our Windows in the Cold Air’”

I Remember the Teachers’ Strike of 1946: “We Rolled Down Our Windows in the Cold Air’”
Author: Maxine Dickson

The author attended and remembered having talked with her teachers about schools and unions. Her family lived at 1718 Ross Avenue, and she attended Ames Elementary and Junior High. When St. Paul’s public school teachers went on strike in 1946, the author and her family went to see the strikers at her school. Students in the city’s schools were not aware how badly underpaid the teachers were at the time, but they supported their actions. The 1946 strike was the first teachers’ strike in the history of the country.
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