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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 ...

Memorial sign at the Gurs Internment Camp, Southwest France, listing the groups imprisoned there. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_de_Gurs_panneau_m%C3%A9moriel_1980.jpg"> Claude Truong-Ngoc</a> ,1980. (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en">CC</a>)

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 ...