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Brookwood Labor College: Mark and Helen Norton Starr Papers

Collection

Identifier: LR000567

Abstract With a background in teaching history and economics in England, Mark Starr moved to the U.S. and went to work for Brookwood Labor College as extension director in 1928. He became director of the Ladies Garment Workers Union Educational Department in 1934, where he served for almost 30 years, publishing pamphlets and articles on workers' education and labor history. In the 1960s, he traveled for the International Labour Office gathering information and training labor leaders in foreign...

Dates: 1917 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1962

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Brookwood Labor College Photographs

Collection

Identifier: LAV000567_BLC

Abstract Brookwood Labor College in Katonah, New York, was founded in 1921 as an experimental college for labor-specific classes. It was a residential college different from traditional colleges. It only lasted until 1937 when it fell victim to the Depression. The collection documents students, faculty and other labor leaders affiliated with the school, as well as the buildings and grounds of the Brookwood Labor College. Classes, Brookwood Labor Players performances and other student activities are...

Dates: 1921 - 1937

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Brookwood Labor College Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000567_BLC

Abstract Brookwood Labor College was a co-educational, residential workers' institution founded in 1921 in Katonah, New York. The curriculum focused on a progressive, non-factional education for workers, as the college sought to play an increasing role in the task of building a militant, intelligent, powerful labor movement. The records document the operation of the college during its sixteen years. Brookwood College closed in 1937.

Dates: 1921 - 1937

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Hilda Smith and Frank Fernbach Oral History

Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 4: Sm-T, Folder: 1

Identifier: LOH002283

Abstract In 1971, Alice Hoffman interviewed labor educator, social worker, and poet Hilda Smith and labor activist Frank Fernbach, chair and co-chair of the National Committee for the Extension of Labor Education, respectively. Collection consists of the interview transcript. Smith and Fernbach touch primarily on the Committee’s efforts in the late 1940s to get federal legislation passed to establish a labor education service.

Dates: 1971-04-30

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Margaret Greenfield Oral History

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Identifier: LOH002325

Abstract Around the 1970s, Aldo Lanza, a professor of American history at the University of Turin, interviewed Margaret Greenfield as part of his research on Brookwood Labor College. Margaret Greenfield was a secretary there. Collection consists of the interview recording. Greenfield talks about Brookwood Labor College during her time working there, particularly the school's efforts between 1926 and 1929 for its $1 million fund, with which she was involved, as well as her later work at the college.

Dates: 1970 - 1979

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

Workers' Education Local 189 Records

Collection

Identifier: LR000954

Abstract Workers Education Local 189, American Federation of Teachers, was founded in November 1922 as the bargaining agent for the faculty members of Brookwood Labor College. After Brookwood closed its doors in 1937, Local 189 opened its membership to all persons, regardless of geographic location, who were engaged in workers' education. Throughout its existence Local 189 had been active in distributing workers' education materials to other members of the AFT, and to public schools, colleges and to the...

Dates: 1939 - 1977

Found in: Walter P. Reuther Library

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