| Albert Shanker Born: 14-Sep-1928
Birthplace: Manhattan, NY
Died: 22-Feb-1997
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Cancer - other
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Labor Leader Nationality: United States
Executive summary: American Federation of Teachers Father: Morris
Mother: Mamie
Sister: Pearl Harris
Wife: Pearl Sabbath
Son: Carl Eugene Sabath
Wife: Edith Gerber (m. 1961)
Son: Adam Shanker
Daughter: Jennie Shanker
Son: Michael Shanker
High School: Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY (1946)
University: BA Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1949)
University: Columbia University
Teacher: PS 179, East Harlem, NY
Professor: Hunter College
Professor: Harvard University
African-American Labor Center
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996
American Federation of Teachers President (1974-97)
AFL-CIO Executive Council
Asian-American Free Labor Institute
Committee for Economic Development
Committee on the Present Danger
Congress of Racial Equality
Freedom House
Free Trade Union Institute
International Rescue Committee 1973
Jewish Labor Committee
Joint Council on Economic Education
League for Industrial Democracy
National Endowment for Democracy
Trilateral Commission
United Federation of Teachers
Presidential Medal of Freedom (15-Jan-1998)
Russian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
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