The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941 [Hardcover]

This study examines one organization from the radical left of the 1920s and 1930s: the American Fund for Public Service. Little known today, but infamous in its time, the American Fund represented a united front of anticapitalistsanarchists, socialists, communists, and left-liberalswhich attempted to revitalize the left in order to end capitalism and, therefore, war. Financed by Charles Garland, an eccentric, 21-year-old Harvard dropout, the Fund performed the difficult task of allocating relatively meager resources among the most promising radical ventures, typically militant labor organizations. The philanthropy's directors represented a who's who of the labor left of the period: Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, Scott Nearing, James Weldon Johnson, and more. The fund anticipated philanthropies later in the century which meant to challenge the status quo beyond reformism. This study will be of interest to scholars of labor relations, radical politics, American history, and philanthropy.GLORIA GARRETT SAMSON has taught at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University's Rochester extensions and other institutions. She holds degrees from the Universities of Colorado and Rochester.

Introduction
An Inheritance Rejected
From Progressivism to Radicalism
The ACLU and a New Social Order
Free from the Bonds of Old Institutions
Workers Will Lay Down Their Tools
To Promote the Well-Being of Mankind
Pacifists as Radicals
It Takes Warm Hearts
Chosen to Box the Left Compass
A Sane Enough Radicalism
Spend It Here and Now
Scientific, Pragmatic, Efficient
Emancipation of Their Class in Every Sphere
Bolsheviks in Patriots' Clothing
Tempers Flare
The Rebel Girl Comes Aboard
Surveying the Left
Enemies on the Left
Education and Culture
Recipient Testimonials
Negro Work
Passaic
Vanguard Press
Friction Within and Without
Little Left to Repress
The Manifold Discriminations l��