Centennial Approaches for Bryn Mawr's Summer School for Working Women

 Kimberly Haas authored a fascinating article "Bryn Mawr College Marks Centennial of its Summer School for Working Women" for Hidden City. Haas describes a controversial and inspired educational experiment known as the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers. The institution recruited working women for an eight-week session from 1921 until 1939 "...when the school was transferred to the Hudson Shore Labor School and continued at that location until 1951."

You can also learn more by visiting "The Summer School for Women Workers: Diversity, Class, and Education," a digital exhibit offered by The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education. Haas notes that a new curated exhibit is also scheduled for March 2021.

Haas also includes a link to "The Women of Summer" a documentary film available from The Internet Archive that provides the story of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers as seen through the eyes of its alumnae fifty years later at a planned reunion.