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Students at the Bryn Mawr College summer labor school, Bryn Mawr, PA, circa 1921.
Credit: Library of Congress
In operation for seventeen summers, between 1921 and 1938, the Bryn Mawr Summer School became a model for similar schools across the country. More than 1,700 factory workers attended the program during those years, including African American women, who attended for the first time in 1926.