Commonwealth College (Arkansas)
Commonwealth College was started in 1923 to recruit and train people to take the lead in socio-economic reform and prepare them for unconventional roles in a new and different society. Although in the 1930s commonwealth was essentially orieneted towards training organizers for the rapidly growing labor movement. An outgrowth of Job Harriman's Newllano Cooperative Colony in Louisiana, in 1923, William Edward Zeuch, A. James McDonald, and Kate Richards O'Hare joined with Newllano to found the institute in 1923.
Tensions within cooperative community led to a split and Commonwealth’s founders moved to Mena, Arkansas in December, 1924 where the institution re-opened the next year.
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