The Rand School of Social Science was formed in 1906 in New York City by adherents of the Socialist Party of America. The school aimed to provide a broad education to workers, imparting a politicizing class-consciousness, and additionally served as a research bureau, a publisher, and the operator of a summer camp for socialist and trade union activists.
Advertisement for the Rand School Restaurant from the debut issue of The Masses magazine, January 1911.
The Lusk Committee raided the Rand School in the summer of 1919 and seized documents to fuel its investigations
Full page magazine ad published in August 1919 soliciting funds for the legal defense of the Rand School of Social Science following the Lusk Committee raid.
Louis B. Boudin (1907)
August Claessens
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August "Gus" Claessens was a Swiss-born American socialist politician, best known as one of the five New York Assemblymen expelled from that body during the First Red Scare for their membership in the Socialist Party of America.
