page_title: Garland Fund
hierarchical_section_title: Garland Fund
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Charles Garland (1922)
context_page_description: The American Fund for Public Service, commonly known as the Garland Fund, was a left wing organization established in 1922 by Charles Garland. The fund, administered by a group of trustees headed by Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, ultimately disbursed some $2 Million to a variety of radical and left wing institutions, including the Federated Press labor news service, the Vanguard Press publishing house, The New Masses magazine, The World Tomorrow magazine, and to the legal defense fund associated with the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike, as well as a host of similar projects. The fund was terminated in 1941.
context_section_description: The American Fund for Public Service, commonly known as the Garland Fund, was a left wing organization established in 1922 by Charles Garland. The fund, administered by a group of trustees headed by Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union, ultimately disbursed some $2 Million to a variety of radical and left wing institutions, including the Federated Press labor news service, the Vanguard Press publishing house, The New Masses magazine, The World Tomorrow magazine, and to the legal defense fund associated with the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike, as well as a host of similar projects. The fund was terminated in 1941.
caption: Portrait of Charles Garland from 1922, the year he endowed the fund
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