Commonwealth College (Arkansas)
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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. An outgrowth of Job Harriman's New Lano Cooperative Colony in Louisiana, in 1923, William Zeuch, James McDonald,[citation needed] Kate Richards O'Hare, and Frank P. O'Hare joined with New Lano to found the institute in 1923.[1] In the 1930s Commonwealth was essentially oriented towards training organizers for the rapidly growing labor movement. Tensions within the cooperative community led to a split, and Zeuch and Kate Richards and Frank P. O'Hare moved to Mena, Arkansas in December 1924,[citation needed] where the institution re-opened the next year.[1]
Active | 1923–1940 |
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Founder | Kate Richards O'Hare, Frank P. O'Hare, William Edward Zeuch |
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