James Rogers was named National Teacher of the Year in 1972. Rogers poses on Friday, February 4, 2005. (info about the photo Rogers is holding-1972 National Teacher of the Year James M. Rogers Jr with Julie Nixon Eisenhower and members of Nixon’s cabinet. Rogers, the first black named national teacher of the year, was an American History and Black Studies Teacher at Durham High School. The picture is signed “To James Rogers, Jr, With happy memories of the Teacher of the Year ceremony and with best wishes always, Julie Nixon Eisenhower”)