In 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
In 1906, at a meeting of the Negro Young Peoples Christian and Educational Congress, the National Colored Teachers Association was formed.
Additional racial segregation and Jim Crow laws had been imposed by white-dominated legislatures in the late 19th century.
[3] The magazine "was a bridge between the members of the Association, and it served to inform the public and interpret NATCS to those who did not attend the annual meetings".
The ATA and NEA began to consider a merger in the early 1960s, as a result of changes in education and the civil rights movement.