6.8 Student Cooperatives

What now is called the Virginia Student Councils Association began as the Student Cooperative Association of Virginia; it was designed to support white students and was an outgrowth of the Cooperative Education Association begun in 1905 and conceived of at the March 28-29, 1904 conference of educators in Richmond. Before 1905, it was the Junior Community League. The term Junior League reflected a relationship to adult Community Leagues. Parent and student groups were part of the Cooperative Educational Association of Virginia. There was a Junior League version of the County-Wide League.

We have records of student cooperative associations of Loudoun County from 1942 to 1955/56. References to Community Leagues permeate the records
See also Student Cooperative Association in EWP 4.9 Yr 1952 Jan The Virginia Bulletin.

In 1933, the Cooperative Education Association (CEA) merged with the Parent-Teacher Association and became the Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers. In 1937, the Junior League was called the Student Cooperative Association. Virginia’s was the oldest of its kind in the United States. In 1974 the Student Cooperative Association severed ties with the Virginia Council and became the Virginia Student Council Association