Power from the Past

Memory Work Research Initiative

Pacific Coast School for Workers, 1940

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Brochure advertising the 1940 session of the Pacific Coast School for Workers. Below the title is a sepia-toned group picture of the 1939 participants, the list of sponsoring organizations, and the statement: "To broaden the worker's acquaintance with his world; to deepen his understanding of it; to heighten his effectiveness in it."

The Pacific Coast School for Workers trained hundreds of union members between 1933 and 1941 in collaboration with the University of California, the California Federation of Labor, and state education agencies. Source: University of California Extension records, Bancroft Library.