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3 unusual facts about Fannia Cohn


Fannia Cohn

In 1914 the National Women's Trade Union League (NWTUL), an organization established in 1903, launched a training school for women organizers, a year-long program combining academics and field work.

Cohn was a co-founder of Brookwood Labor College in 1924, an initiative associated with labor educator A. J. Muste.

Fannia Mary Cohn was born on April 5, 1885 to an ethnic Jewish family in Kletsk, Belarus, then part of the Russian empire.



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