NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2024 40 By Melissa Beckford-Simpson THE GENESIS THE TASK to acquire a home for the Jamaica Union of Teachers, one of the predecessors of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), was assumed during the presidency of A.A. Robinson. The home of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, 97 Church Street, Kingston, is primarily the effort of hard-working women of the JTA who relentlessly raised funds for its purchase. Edith Dalton James, May Wright, M.L. Knibb, Amy Bailey, May Keane, Gerty Richards, Ethlyn Rodd, the Wright Sisters and D. McPherson were tasked to “devise ways and means’ and may be considered the architects of the acquisition of this tangible legacy. Today, the building that was the fruit of this effort is named after a stalwart of teacher unionism, Woodburn Miller. However, it is neither proportionally representative nor reflective of JTA 60TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE A critical exposé of the work and worth of the women of the JTA Immediate Past President of the JTA, LaSonja Harrison (2nd left), poses with some of the leaders in attendance at the JDTAN summit in 2023. PLEASE SEE WOMEN, 41
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