Collections

Hundreds of teachers stand in front of a government building in Boston.
"Tues., March 24, 1970. Part of the 3,000 members of the Boston Teachers Union, Local 66, AFT, mass on the plaza next to Boston City Hall for a rally, concluding an extensive march throughout downtown Boston." Courtesy of University Archives and Special Collections, UMass Boston. BTU Digitizing Day, 2018.

The Boston Teachers Union Collection at UMass Boston is currently made up of three distinct collections: the Boston Union Teacher, the BTU Oral History Project, and the BTU Digitizing Day. All of these collections are freely available and full-text searchable through UMass Boston’s Open Archives Digital Collections portal.

In addition to being discoverable through web searches, Open Archives collections are directly searchable through Digital Commonwealth: Massachusetts Collections Online and the Digital Public Library of America.

To accompany the collection, UMass Boston graduate students Evan McDonagh and Kayla Allen worked with UMass Boston Reference Librarian Jessica Holden to create a LibGuide: a research guide with inks to related materials in UMass Boston’s Libraries and beyond.

Click on the links below to learn more about each collection!

Boston Union Teacher

Oral Histories

Digitizing Day

Research Guide