PUBLICATIONS INCLUDING REFERENCES TO THE MODERN SCHOOL AND INDIVIDUALS ASSOCIATED WITH IT,, 1911-1941

Summary: Publications including articles about the Modern School or concerning individuals who were associated with it.

Includes a Modern School special issue of the Los Angeles radical journal Everyman (1914), edited by Leonard Abbott; an issue of the Los Angeles vegetarian-fruitarian-humanitarian journal Human Culture Digest (1941) containing several articles about the Modern School and the Ferms; and an incomplete run of Mother Earth(1911-1917), the prominent anarchist journal edited by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Founded in 1906, Mother Earth, published frequent articles about Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School movement, as well as publishing advertisements and appeals for funds for the Modern School of Stelton. This series also includes an issue of its namesake Mother Earth (1933), a Thoreavian anarchist newsletter published in Craryville, New York, by Jo Ann Wheeler and John G. Scott, former teachers at the Modern School and residents of Stelton.

Finally this series contains a program from a conference held by the Road to Freedom Group in Stelton in 1934, in which they discussed organizing an Anarchist Federation of Americirca The Road to Freedom Group were members of the Modern School Association of North Americirca