Editing John Dewey (section)

===League for Industrial Democracy===
In 1939, Dewey was elected President of the [[League for Industrial Democracy]], an organization with the goal of educating college students about the labor movement. The Student Branch of the L.I.D. later became the [[Students for a Democratic Society]].<ref>''The Cambridge Companion to Dewey'', edited by Molly Cochran. Cambridge University Press, 2010. p. xvii.</ref>

As well as defending the independence of teachers and opposing a communist takeover of the New York Teachers' Union,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FSksfVY-nMC&q=john%20dewey%20communist%20teachers%20union&pg=PA398|title=John Dewey: Political theory and social practice|isbn=978-0-415-05313-6|last1=Tiles|first1=J.E.|year=1992|publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> Dewey was involved in the organization that eventually became the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]], sitting as an executive on the NAACP's early executive board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.naacp.org/nations-premier-civil-rights-organization/|title=About &#124; NAACP|access-date=July 22, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801144155/http://www.naacp.org/nations-premier-civil-rights-organization/|url-status=live}}</ref>
He was an avid supporter of [[Henry George]]'s proposal for taxing land values. Of George, he wrote, "No man, no graduate of a higher educational institution, has a right to regard himself as an educated man in social thought unless he has some first-hand acquaintance with the theoretical contribution of this great American thinker."<ref>Dewey, J. (1927) [http://www.wealthandwant.com/HG/PP/Dewey_Appreciation_HG.html An Appreciation of Henry George] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140625102310/http://www.wealthandwant.com/HG/PP/Dewey_Appreciation_HG.html |date=June 25, 2014 }}</ref> As honorary president of the Henry George School of Social Science, he wrote a letter to [[Henry Ford]] urging him to support the school.<ref>Dewey, J. (1939) [http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dewey-john_a-letter-to-henry-ford-1939.html A Letter to Henry Ford] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150113025951/http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dewey-john_a-letter-to-henry-ford-1939.html |date=2015-01-13 }}</ref>