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MAY 1, 1970 • Article

On the Moral Implications of Torture and Exemplary Assassination

First published in May 1970 during the Vietnam War, this WORLDVIEW magazine article is just as relevant today.

Martin Luther King, Jr. PHOTO CREDIT: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_King_Jr_NYWTS.jpg">Dick DeMarsico (CC)</a>

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, ...

Hoa Lo prison (the "Hanoi Hilton"). CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51711587@N00/4434627193/">mattjkelley</a>

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kjqhc5c">Cecil Stoughton, White House</a>. Pope John XXIII, via <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kzbb577">Wikipedia</a>

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 ...

Sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C., February 2, 1960. </br> CREDIT: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.08095/">Library of Congress</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."

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, ...

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. <a href="https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6120927">National Archives</a>.

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 ...

View from the Palais des Nations, Geneva, 1950s. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/andersannipal/16892949299/">Anders</a>.

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 ...

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Conference, 1945 CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/un_photo/33458298163/in/album-72157616945763028/">United Nations</a>

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 ...