Abraham Lincoln Summer School Institute brochure "Loaf and Learn with Your Union Brothers and Sisters"
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- Title (English):
- Abraham Lincoln Summer School Institute brochure "Loaf and Learn with Your Union Brothers and Sisters"
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Culture Front
Visual
Education
Black Labor, Organizing and Rights - Creator:
- Abraham Lincoln School of Social Science, Summer Institute
- Organization:
- Abraham Lincoln School of Social Science, Summer Institute
- Date:
- 1945
- Location:
- Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin
- ID Number:
- 5276b16f01_03
- File Name:
- 5276b16f01_03.pdf
- Address (recipient):
- Chicago Du Sable Lodge 751, 67 E. 35th Street, Chicago, Illinois
- Address (creator):
- Abraham Lincoln School for Social Sciences, 180 W. Washington St, Chicago 2, Illinois
- Work Type:
- brochures
photographs - Subject:
- historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
national organization
Black people in the labor movement
African Americans- Civil Rights
Political
Civil Rights
white chauvinism
national prejudice
racial prejudice
interracial
lodges
communism
Intelligentsia
Culture Front- Music, Dance, Film, Drama, Performances
Pedagogy
Education
Postwar Order and Social Contract
race (Concept)
Labor Unions
camps (recreation areas)
Black Lodges
feminism
recruitment
Labor leaders
Fund raising - Description:
- Folded brochure from the Abraham Lincoln School of Social Science, Summer Institute in Madison, Wisconsin where childcare and affordable family rates were featured for union members. Alban D. Winspear was the founder of the leftist workers Summer Institute; Winspear's textbook was "Why Work for Nothing." In 1945, Louise Thompson Patterson and William "Pat" Patterson organized Chicago union workers and Du Sable Lodge members to attend the summer educational program. As the brochure's title "Loaf and Learn with Your Union Brothers and Sisters" suggests, recreation was built into the program. William Patterson and IWO leaders gave classes and/or spoke at the Institute. With the advent of the Cold War, the Pattersons' and the IWO's politics were attacked as were those of the Abraham Lincoln School; its founders A.D. Winspear and William Patterson, and spouse Louise Thompson Patterson were key Lincoln School figures.The program was brought together by IWO Vice President and President of the Illinois District, Louise Thompson Patterson who organized the Chicago IWO Du Sable Lodge.
- Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 16
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu