April 19, 1925

Commonwealth College moved to its permanent home thirteen miles west of Mena (Polk County). Commonwealth College was Arkansas’s most famous attempt at radical labor education. It had been established in 1923 at Newllano Cooperative Colony near Leesville, Louisiana, by Kate Richards O’Hare, her husband Frank, and William E. Zeuch, all socialists and lifelong adherents of the principles established by Eugene V. Debs.