Rand School of Social Science
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The Rand School of Social Science was formed in New York City by the Socialist Party in 1906. The school aimed to provide a broad education to workers, imparting a politicizing class-consciousness. From 1917 until it closed in 1956, it was located at 7 East 15th Street in Manhattan's Union Square neighborhood.
In 1919, during the first Red Scare, the school was raided by New York State officials who alleged it was a front for the Communist Party. When no evidence was produced a judge threw out the case.[1]
Instructors at the school included Bertrand Russell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Scott Nearing, Charles Beard, John Dewey, and James Harvey Robinson.
Rand's Meyer London Library is now New York University's Tamiment Library.
The Rand School is not to be confused with the New School for Social Research, a separate and unaffiliated institution of higher learning also located in New York City.[2][3]
[edit] References
- ^ Murray, Robert K (1964). Red Scare A Study in National Hysteria, 19191-1920. Mc-Graw Hill Education Books, pp. 101-102. ISBN 0-07-044075-1.
- ^ Rauchway, Eric (2001). The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics. Columbia University Press, pp. 159. ISBN 0231121474.
- ^ "The name of the avowedly uncommitted New School for Social Research sounded too much like that of the sternly socialist Rand School of Social Science—and, [New School founder] Johnson said, "the delusion has persisted that they follow the same doctrine." Rauchway 2001, p. 159.
[edit] External links
- "The Tamiment Library", by Andrew H. Lee, Autumn 2004, London Socialist Historians Group.
- "History and Description", The Taminent Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.
