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Founder. Kate Richards O'Hare, Frank P. O'Hare, William Edward Zeuch. Location. Mena. , Arkansas. , United States. Commonwealth College (1923–1940) was a college started to recruit and train people to take the lead in socio-economic reform and prepare them for unconventional roles in a new and different society.
14 de ago. de 2023 · Commonwealth College. Arkansas’s most famous attempt at radical labor education was the accidental by-product of natural beauty, cheap land, and desperation. Commonwealth College was established in 1923 at Newllano Cooperative Colony near Leesville, Louisiana.
14 de jun. de 2021 · Commonwealth College was a radical experiment in socialist education nestled deep in the Arkansas mountains. It taught and trained over 1,500 worker-activists before becoming an early casualty of American anti-communism. Our new print issue, centered on the topic of religion, is out now.
15 de abr. de 2007 · Commonwealth College was a small college founded in 1925 near Mena, Arkansas, with socialist ideals and labor activism. It faced legal troubles, opposition and raids, and closed in 1940 after being accused of sedition.
15 de mar. de 2024 · Founded by socialist education reformers, Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, published hundreds of issues of its newspaper, the Fortnightly, from 1926 to 1938. This digital collection provides fully searchable access to more than 200 issues.
miles northwest of Mena, Arkansas. Commonwealth College was Arkansas' sole claim to progressive labor education. It was frequently a target of local and state critics, who associated its faculty and students with the bugaboo of in-ternational Communism. But there is no proof that either the college or its faculty and students were ever interna-
Books. Radical Education in the Rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940. William H. Cobb. Wayne State University Press, 2000 - Business & Economics - 263 pages. Commonwealth College...
