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APR 30, 1970 • Article
A New Sense of Direction (1968)
Dr. King gave this speech just a few months before his assassination and it is his last thorough evaluation of the movement. Still sadly relevant, ...
APR 29, 1970 • Article
Mission to Hanoi, 1968
In February 1968, peace activist Father Daniel Berrigan and historian Howard Zinn flew to Hanoi to obtain the release of three American prisoners of war. Here ...
JAN 8, 1970 • Article
The Year that was 1963
"Nineteen sixty-three has proved a turbulent and a humbling year....The deaths of two men did most to remind us sharply of the kind of ...
JAN 7, 1970 • Article
Farewell Magic; Farewell Myth
This May 1961 editorial in Worldview magazine was in response to the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba, which took place on April 17, 1961, just a ...
JAN 7, 1970 • Article
America's Minority Problems
In 1960, the editors of WORLDVIEW Magazine argued that the freedom and democracy that United States leaders were espousing abroad during the Cold War were not ...
![Hawaiian Government Officials, 1959-1962. CREDIT: <a href="http://gallery.hawaii.gov/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=31409">Hawaii State Archives.</a> <br> When Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959 "...the population of the Hawaiian Islands [was] only twenty-five percent 'white.' The majority of its population [was] native Hawaiian, Chinese and Japanese."](https://cdn.carnegiecouncil.org/media/cceia/_1000x650_crop_center-center_none_ns/hawaiigovt_2023-03-03-053116_sjdg.jpg?v=1721240890)
JAN 6, 1970 • Article
The Problem of Race
1959 may not seem like a landmark year for the Civil Rights movement. It is sandwiched between the 1957 desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, ...
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
"In Your Hands: A Guide for Community Action"
"America's advances depend on every citizen. From now until the Declaration's tenth anniversary on December 10, 1958, you will want to study and discuss the Declaration, examine ...
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
CPU's John R. Inman Goes to Europe
Annual Reports used to be a lot more entertaining! In this excerpt from the 1956 Report, John Inman discusses attending the annual assembly of the World ...
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
First-hand Report from the San Francisco Conference, Where the UN Charter was Signed
"The most important conference in our generation began its work here in San Francisco today. A feeling of deep solemnity brooded over the 4,000 people packed ...
JAN 5, 1970 • Article
A Pastor Under Nazi Rule
Jules Jezéquel was a Protestant pastor in the Reformed Church of France and represented the Church Peace Union and the World Alliance of Churches ...