Ferrer Center and Colony
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The Ferrer Center and Stelton Colony were an anarchist social center and colony, respectively, organized to honor the memory of anarchist pedagogue Francisco Ferrer and to build a school based on his
Francisco Ferrer, whom the project was named after
Reading lesson with Sherwood Trask in Stelton, ca. 1922
Leonard Abbott
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Leonard Dalton Abbott was a British-born American anarchist and socialist best known for co-founding the Stelton Colony and related Ferrer Association in the 1910s.
Ferrer Center and Colony
…immigrant, and he arrived three years after the Center's founding. The rest were not immigrants: the early spokesperson and first Association president Leonard Abbott, Harry Kelly, and early financier Alden Freeman. Journalist Hutchins Hapgood, who lectured at the Center, came to write about Yiddish culture following…
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Abbott speaking before a crowd, 1910