Trifold brochure advertising the Work Camp for Democracy, August 7 to September 4, 1939, West Park, New York.
The Executive Committee was chaired by Algernon D. Black who, with Alice K. Politzer, would found the Encampment for Citizenship in 1946.
Sponsors included
Paul Kellogg,
Max Otto,
V.T. Thayer,
Agnes Reynolds, and
Walter F. White.
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The Work Camp for Democracy is to be an experiment in democracy as a way of life suited to meet the challenge of our time. It will afford sixty young people, Americans and refugees, of various religious, racial and economic backgrounds the opportunity to study, work and play together to broaden their understanding of democracy."