Invitation letter from Knights of Columbus, 1937

This letter from prominent Knights of Columbus figure Joseph F. Lamb to the Society offered an invitation to attend a meeting aimed at fighting subversive movements in the United States, including communism. It is uncertain whether anyone from the Society attended the meeting. It is notable, however, that the meeting’s speaker, George Hermann Derry, was a famed educator, scholar and philosopher who did much to promote education based on the liberal arts. His wife, Agnes Mann, was the daughter of Horace Mann, the oft-proclaimed father of public education in the United States.

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