Student Activism in the 1930s
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"Simon Degree." Editorial cartoon from the Daily Californian, October 20, 1938

Credits


Robert Cohen and Project Director wish to dedicate this feature to today's graduate student union organizers.

Essay and Primary Documents

Robert Cohen is a professor in NYU's School of Education. His essay "Activist Impulses: Campus Radicalism in the 1930s" is taken from his book, When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Copyright, Robert Cohen).

The primary documents that make up this feature were selected by Professor Cohen.

HTML Development and Design

Project Director designed the website and led the development of this project.

Photographs

In 1940 Rondal Partridge received a commission from the National Youth Administration to document "California Youth." His photo essays constitute an evocative look at Americas youth during the moment in which the country moved from depression to war. Mr. Partridge's photo essays can be found on the New Deal Network at Rondal Partridge, NYA Photographer.

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