Teacher Debra Edmund (center) of PS 193 in Brooklyn took two guests to the event: public school parents Mirna Martinez (left) and Adelicia Smith Dunn.

College professor and author Robert Freeman accepts the Rosa Parks Award for social justice.

Listening to speakers are (from left) Jack Zevin, Bob Dytell and Joseph Zingone.

The conference room is packed with participants.

George Altomare (left), the director of UFT professional committees, presents the Hubert Humphrey Award to Mario Cilento, the president of the New York State AFL-CIO, while Association of Teachers of Social Studies President Joseph Zingone looks on.

Participants listen to Hubert Humphrey Award recipient Mario Cilento, the president of the New York State AFL-CIO.

Anna Hendrick (second from right), the winner of the Bernard A. Cohen Award for Social Studies Education, joins other attendees during the singing of “Solidarity Forever.”