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The California Labor School (until 1945 named the Tom Mooney Labor School) was an educational organization in San Francisco from 1942 to 1957. Like the contemporary Jefferson School of Social Science and the New York Workers School, it represented the "transformed and upgraded" successors of the "workers schools" of the 1920s and 1930s.
The California Labor School was originally founded at the edge of the Civic Center, at 678 Turk Street (at Van Ness), as the Tom Mooney Labor School in 1942. After a modest beginning, it grew quickly.
Consisting of materials generated by the California Labor School, spanning the entire life of the School from its founding as the Tom Mooney Labor School in 1942 until its closing by the Internal Revenue Service in 1957, this collection offers researchers a multi-faceted view of the California Labor School and its place in the left-wing ...
5 de feb. de 2020 · The California Labor School was a cultural hub for the Bay Area's progressive and labor communities during the 1940s and 1950s. The school originated in San Francisco and expanded its campuses to Oakland, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.
Eslanda Goode Robeson was a civil rights activist and wife and manager of the performer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. The California Labor School was a cultural hub for the Bay Area's progressive and labor communities during the 1940s and 1950s.
Learn about the history and legacy of the California Labor School, a post-war institution that offered classes on labor, arts and social sciences. Find out how the school was influenced by the New Deal, the anti-communist crusade and the GI Bill.
Learn about the life and achievements of Maya Angelou, a poet, activist, and scholar who was the first African American woman to work as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. She attended the California Labor School, a Communist-affiliated school, in Oakland, California during World War II.
