Press releases from the College include routine announcements of sessions; text for release of a radio address by Arley Woodrow, hopeful Communist Party candidate for lieutenant governor of Arkansas; an account of intimidation of Southern Tenant Farmers' Union organizers in Cross County, Arkansaas; and announcements from the last weeks of the College's existence in summer of 1940
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, minutes of proceedings, bulletins, pamphlets, newspapers, clippings, and other material pertaining to the history of the radical labor school at Mena, Arkansas.
Correspondents include Cedric Belfrage, Wilbur Clarke Benton, Douglass Carr, Winifred L. Chappell, J. Vance Clayton, Kenneth C. Coffelt, William Fadjo Cravens, Samuel W. Eiges, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Mabel Fulks, Nathan Green Gordon, Laura Ley Gray, Claris G. "Crip" Hall, Arthur Garfield Hays, Melville Jean Herskovits, Lucien Koch, Raymond Koch, Robert Allen Leflar, Edward Fitzgerald McFaddin, Martha Hillard Mac-Leish, Minor Wallace Millwee, Robert Lee Morris, Charlotte Moskowitz, Hal Lee Norwood, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor, Nathan Oser, Cornelia Elizabeth Pinchot, David Wight Prall, Griffin Smith, Boyd Alexander Tackett, Tille E. Thorkelson, Claude Williams, Guy Ellsworth Williams.
Dates
- From the Collection: 1924-1949
Access Information
Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.
Creator
- From the Collection: St. John, Richard W. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu