Lewis called it "the only self-respecting, keen, alive educational institution I have ever known..." Labor historian Linda Eisenmann notes that, after 75 years, scholars still consider Brookwood one of the most influential labor colleges in American history. Labor historian Frances Ryan characterized it as "one of the most successful experiments in worker education in U.S. labor history". Brookwood's reputation is based largely on its curriculum. Ryan says its curriculum was unique as a model of progressive education methods. The school also pioneered the extension course and the correspondence course. Notable students Below is a partial list of notable students who attended Brookwood Labor College: Ella Baker, civil rights activist Harry Bellaver, stage, film and television actor Len De Caux, publicity director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Elizabeth Hawes, union organizer and fashion designer Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray, civil and women's rights activist and the first black woman ordained an Episcopal priest. Rose Finkelstein Norwood, labor organizer, president of the Boston Women's Trade Union League Joseph Ozanic, founder of the Progressive Miners of America Rose Pesotta, vice president of the ILGWU Roy Reuther, prominent international labor organizer with the United Automobile Workers Sophie Reuther, international labor organizer with the United Automobile Workers Walter Reuther, President of the United Automobile Workers and President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Floria Pinkney, international labor organizer with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union See also Labour Party (disambiguation) for various political movements associated with trade unionism or labor colleges Rand School of Social Science (1906) Work People's College (1907) New York Workers School (1923): New Workers School (1929) Jefferson School of Social Science (1944) Highlander Research and Education Center (formerly Highlander Folk School) (1932) Commonwealth College (Arkansas) (1923-1940) Southern Appalachian Labor School (since 1977) San Francisco Workers' School (1934) California Labor School (formerly Tom Mooney Labor School) (1942) Continuing education References Bibliography Allen, Devere. Adventurous Americans. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Altenbaugh, Richard J. "'The Children and the Instruments of a Militant Labor Progressivism': Brookwood Labor College and the American Labor College Movement of the 1920s and 1930s." History of Education Quarterly. 23:4 (Winter 1983): 395-411. Andrews, Gregg. Thyra J. Edwards: Black Activist in the Global Freedom Struggle. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 2011. Appelbaum, Patricia Faith. Kingdom to Commune: Protestant Pacifist Culture Between World War I and the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Barrow,