STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
Pearl Schwartz White was born in St. Louis and taught in the St. Louis public schools her entire teaching career.
She received her B.A. from Stowe Teachers' College and an M.A. in education from Teachers' College at Columbia
University, New York. She was a member of many professional and educational organizations, including: the National
Educational Association; Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers; Missouri State Teachers' Association;
Retired Teachers' Association; American Association of Univerisity Women; the Association for the Study of Negro
Life and History; and American Women in Radio and Television. President of the Missouri State Association of Negro
Teachers, 1944-1946, she considered the merger of the Missouri State Teachers' Association (all white) and the
Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers in 1948 one of her greatest achievments. She founded Zeta Sigma, the
graduate chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho in 1932 in St. Louis. In 1963, she began broadcasting Open Road
on KATZ radio, an informative, weekly show sponsored by Zeta Sigma.
Correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, newsclippings of a St. Louis black educator. Includes material on the Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers. Statistics on negro teachers in Missouri in the 1930s.
FOLDER LIST
1. Material related to Open Roadradio program
2. Material on Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1935-1948
3. Material on Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1930-1939
4. Material on Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1930-1939
5. Material on Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1945-1947
6. Material on Missouri State Association of Negro Teachers, 1939-1948
INDEX
African Americans
Dreer, Herman
Education
Missouri Association of Negro Teachers
Teacher Salaries
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