{"id":7773,"date":"2018-10-09T04:18:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T04:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/learnpro\/?page_id=7773"},"modified":"2020-10-12T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:59:59","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
\r\n\t
\r\n\t\t
\r\n\t\t\t

\"Picture\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

1911 HISTORY OF THE TENNESSEE CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

A question was asked: when did Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers begin and the history.<\/p>\n

There were those who attended the historic meeting in Washington in 1897.\u00a0 It was not long before Mothers Clubs began to be formed here and there.\u00a0 But it was not until 1911 that anyone became actively interested in forming a Tennessee state branch of the National Congress of Mothers.<\/p>\n

Mrs. G. H Robertson of Jackson, Tennessee, mother of four boys, began to work energetically with the United Charities of Jackson.\u00a0 Her activities took her into destitute homes where children were poorly cared for.\u00a0 There were no compulsory school laws at that time and no courts for children.\u00a0 Delinquent children were placed in jail with hardened criminals. Mrs. Robertson sought advice from a Judge Ben Lindsey.\u00a0 Mrs. Frederick Schoff president of the National Congress of Mother, hearing of this interest wrote and invited Mrs. Robertson to join the mothers at Memphis, who would soon be en route to Denver to attend the National Convention.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Robertson returned to Tennessee filled with glee and high hopes of an organization in her own state.\u00a0 Mrs. Booker McKinnie, a teacher in the public schools in Jackson, offered her services and assisted in writing letter to educators, ministers, librarian, and civic leaders in the three sections of the state.\u00a0 Mrs. S.A. Mynders, who husband was Superintendent of the city schools in Knoxville, were consulted.\u00a0 Mrs. Eugene Crutcher of Nashville, president of a Mother Club and active in social welfare work, and Mrs. Thomas Scruggs of Memphis were also told the plans.<\/p>\n

The date for the meeting was set for January 24 and 25, 1911 in Nashville.\u00a0 A representative group of men and women from all parts of the state were present, and on the eve of the inauguration of Governor Ben Hooper the Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers was organized.\u00a0 The newly elected officers were platform guests when he accepted the governorship and were later entertained at dinner and a reception at the Governor\u2019s mansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1911 HISTORY OF THE TENNESSEE CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS A question was asked: when did Tennessee Congress of Parents and Teachers begin and the history. There were those who attended the historic meeting in Washington in 1897.\u00a0 It was not long before Mothers Clubs began to be formed here and there.\u00a0 But it was...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9406,"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7773\/revisions\/9406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tnpta.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}