Elizabeth Koontz; First Black President of NEA
Funeral services were held Monday in Salisbury, N.C., for Elizabeth (Libby) Duncan Koontz, the first black president of the National Education Assn. and former head of the Women’s Bureau under President Richard M. Nixon.
Mrs. Koontz died of a heart attack Friday at her Salisbury home. She was 69.
A former teacher of mentally handicapped students, Mrs. Koontz became president of the NEA in 1968. She resigned a year later to work in the Nixon Administration.
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