The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

Tales from the Reuther Library by Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Feb 12, 202657:31Education

John Fabian Witt recounts how in the 1920s and 1930s Charles Garland donated his million-dollar inheritance to the American Fund for Public Service, or Garland Fund, to support progressive causes and organizations he bel...

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