The radical fund how a band of visionaries and a million dollars upended America
In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, and political repression, Garland opted instead to invest in a future where radical ideas -- like working-class power, free speech, and equality -- migh...
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2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Cast of characters: the world of the Garland fund
- Prologue: a curious inheritance
- Part I: Mass democracy in America. Democratic faith ; The Education of Roger Baldwin ; The People Can Rule ; Outrage of the Century
- Weapons of truth ; You Will Be Suppressed ; Not by Bread Alone ; War Fever
- The less we know ; A Preparatory School of Crime ; Blanket of Silence ; The Best Test of Truth?
- Freedom and economics ; A Civil Liberties Union ; The New Benevolence
- Garland's million ; Cause of All Unhappiness ; A Trust Fund for Pioneering Enterprises ; The Left Compass
- Free love farm
- Part II: Against Jim Crow. The usual crime ; The Fury of the Mob ; Greatest American Game ; Explode the Rape Myth
- Educate the masses ; Cash Value ; Out of Our Field ; Fasten Slavery Permanently
- First victories ; Thunder Bolt from a Clear Sky ; The Most Celebrated of Cases ; Nothing Except Power
- Capturing the captors ; Fascinating Perils ; Culture for the New Masses ; The Vanguard
- Money haters and tax lawyers
- Part III: American revolutionaries. Nothing in common ; A Rebel Girl Smashes the Chains ; Sabotage ; The IWW Does Not Believe in Violence
- Industrial democracy ; Sacco and Vanzetti ; I Shall Not Leave This Platform ; Brookwood
- The messenger ; The Most Dangerous Negro in America ; Upon the Shoulders of Black Abolitionists ; A Quitter Never Wins
- Millennia don't just happen ; The Black Belt ; A Revolution in Economic Life ; Kindergarten Propositions
- Radical enterprises
- Part IV: Outsiders on the inside. A way of action ; The Public and Its Government ; Powers of the Hualapai ; Evil Eye and Unequal Hand
- Scottsboro and after ; Tactics for Mass Pressure ; The Cost of Skin Pigmentation ; Outstanding Accomplishment
- Use this weapon ; Brookwood Unbound ; Affirmative Legal Action ; Sit-Down Strike
- Switch in time ; Vanguard of the Black Workers ; Power Plays
- A rather astonishing fund
- Epilogue: legacies
- Appendix A: Gifts, 1922-1941
- Appendix B: Garland fund outlays, 1922-1041
- Appendix C: Board of directors, 1922-1941
- Appendix D: Note on language.
