San Francisco Workers' School

San Francisco Workers' School
SuccessorCalifornia Labor School
Formation1934
Dissolvedcirca 1942
Purposeeducational, propagandist, indoctrinal
Headquarters121 Haight Street, San Francisco
Servicesideological training center of CPUSA, adult education
Key people
Samuel Adams Darcy, Benjamin Ellisberg, Langston Hughes, Lincoln Steffens, Anita Whitney
AffiliationsCommunist Party USA

The San Francisco Workers' School was an ideological training center of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) established in San Francisco for adult education in 1934. "It was a typical specimen of a Communist school, such as would come under investigation by federal and state authorities for decades afterward.".[1] in the 1940, it emerged as the California Labor School.

  1. ^ Schwartz, Stephen (1998). From West to East: California and the Making of the American Mind. New York: Free Press. pp. 238–239. ISBN 0-684-83134-1. Retrieved 10 July 2016.