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The California Labor School (until 1945 named the Tom Mooney Labor School) was an educational organization in San Francisco from 1942 to 1957. Like the contemporary Jefferson School of Social Science and the New York Workers School, it represented the "transformed and upgraded" successors of the "workers schools" of the 1920s and 1930s.
- 1957 (aged 14–15)
- Tom Mooney Labor School
- 1942
In 1944, the school changed its name to the California Labor School and moved to a five-story building in downtown SF, where it enjoyed the support of more than 100 trade unions and many leading figures in the academic, industrial, banking, art and professional worlds.
Learn about the life and achievements of Maya Angelou, a poet, activist, and scholar who was the first African American woman to work as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. She attended the California Labor School, a Communist-affiliated school, in Oakland, California during World War II.
The California Labor School was a cultural hub for the Bay Area's progressive and labor communities during the 1940s and 1950s. The school originated in San Francisco and expanded its campuses to Oakland, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.
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History. Resources. Relationships. Places. Subjects. Occupations. Activities. The California Labor School was originally founded as the Tom Mooney School in June of 1942. Its purpose was to train the huge influx of new workers into a wartime economy in trades and in various aspects of labor relations ranging from dues to union representation.
Eslanda Goode Robeson was a civil rights activist and wife and manager of the performer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. The California Labor School was a cultural hub for the Bay Area's progressive and labor communities during the 1940s and 1950s.
