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Chautauqua Movement cultural inspiration political lectures

Chautauqua Movement
President Theodore Roosevelt ~ 'the most American thing in America'
1874 training camp for sunday school teachers
independent learning congregations would travel the country during the summer months
believed to be the inspiration for community colleges
peaked in 1924-25
William Jennings Bryan 'believed it to be a 'potent human factor in molding the mind of the nation'
during WWI, President Woodrow Wilson deemed it 'an integral part of the national defense'

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