The First Work Camp for Democracy [trifold brochure]
Trifold brochure advertising the Work Camp for Democracy, August 7 to September 4, 1939, West Park, New York. <br /><br />The Executive Committee was chaired by Algernon D. Black who, with Alice K. Politzer, would found the Encampment for Citizenship in 1946.<br /><br />Sponsors included <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/kellogg-paul-underwood/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Paul Kellogg</a>, <a href="http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/max-otto/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Max Otto</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.T._Thayer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">V.T. Thayer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Student_Union" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Agnes Reynolds</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Francis_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Walter F. White</a>.<br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />"<em>The Work Camp for Democracy</em> 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."
Work Camp for Democracy
M 391, Box 6, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00136.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Encampment for Citizenship Collection, 1939 - 2009</a>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1939
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No Forced Labor Camps for American Youth! [American Student Union pamphlet]
Pamphlet published by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Student_Union" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Student Union</a>, a national left-wing organization of college students active in the 1930s. The group consisted of both communists and socialists, who argued over the group's stance on pacificism in the face of Hitler's rise to power and events in Europe. <br /><br />The pamphlet advocates for the American Youth Act, a youth assistance bill proposed by the American Youth Congress as an alternative to the National Youth Administration. The AYA was never able to get out of committee on Capitol Hill, however, as it was too costly. <br /><br />"Foreward: This little pamphlet is published by the American Student Union as a warning to undergraduates to act quickly in defense of democratic education and peace, lest the enemies of our liberties succeed in their plan to regiment youth and precipitate us again into foreign war. The facts it reveals are but a partial presentation, due to space limitations, of available information on the subject. The questions it asks are vital to the welfare of every student. The campaign it proposes to launch deserves the support of every American student."
American Student Union
<span>M 391, Box 6, </span><a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00136.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encampment for Citizenship Collection, 1939 - 2009</a><span>, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries</span>
American Student Union
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/299" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Work Camp for Democracy</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/encampment-for-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Encampment for Citizenship. Education for Democratic Living</a>, VCU Libraries Gallery <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/great-depression/american-youth-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Youth Congress</a>, Social Welfare History Project