Work People's College records, 1904-1962

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Work People's College records, 1904-1962

http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/ihrc17.xml

61 folders, 4 Ledgers, one reel of microfilm.

fin,

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Immigration History Research Center [ihrc]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6617122

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Finnish Socialist Federation.

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Work People's College (Duluth, Minn.)

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In 1903, leaders of the Finnish National Lutheran Church of America opened the Finnish People's College and Theological Seminary (Suomalainen Kansan Opisto ja Teologinen Seminaari) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to provide training for clergy and a liberal education for Finnish Americans in general. The college in Minneapolis soon failed and was moved to the Duluth suburb of Smithville, Minnesota where more Finnish Americans had settled. Finnish American Socialists were strong supporters of the schoo...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...