Search Historical Records - Ancestry.com-Mozilla Firefox. Ellis Island - FREE Port of New York Passenger Records Search-Mozilla Firefox. Family History and Genealogy Records-Mozilla Firefox. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine-Mozilla Firefox. Free Genealogy and Family History Online - The USGenWeb Project-Mozilla Firefox. USGenWeb Archives Project Orleans Parish Louisiana-Mozilla Firefox. American Rhetoric: Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt The Struggle for Human Rights delivered 28 September 1948, Paris, France click for pdf click for flash I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time -- that is the preservation of human freedom.
The decisive importance of this issue was fully recognized by the founders of the United Nations at San Francisco. One of the purposes of the United Nations is declared in article 1 to be: "to achieve international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. " The Human Rights Commission was given as its first and most important task the preparation of an International Bill of Rights. The Declaration was finally completed after much work during the last session of the Human Rights Commission in New York in the spring of 1948. 1. 2.
Tesla - Master of Lightning: Life and Legacy. Readings and Practicum in Oral and Video History ~ Fall 2009 ~ Prof. Gerald Zahavi. Studs Terkel : Conversations with America. Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the United States for his book on the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In 1973, he selected several interviews that were included in his book to be broadcast in eleven parts on the Studs Terkel Program on WFMT radio (Chicago, IL). This gallery includes the interviews in those programs. Terkel questions people about their recollections of employment problems, the crash of 1929, organized labor issues, “farm holidays” where crops were destroyed, and U.S. President Franklin Delanor Roosevelt’s New Deal programs. He asks them how they managed financially and personally through the economic slump and what personal qualities surfaced as a result. Quotes from “A Personal Memoir (and parenthetical comment)” to Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression: “This is a memory book rather than one of hard fact and precise statistic….The precise fact or the precise date is of small consequence.
The Hard Times Recordings 72 records returned. University - ILR School - The Triangle Factory Fire. The Black Panthers. Black Panther Party. This text is available as an audio book.
In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The Panthers practiced militant self-defense of minority communities against the U.S. government, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community based programs.
The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation — a party whose agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines. The Ten-Point ProgramRules of the Black Panther Party Black Panther Theory: The practices of the late Malcolm X were deeply rooted in the theoretical foundations of the Black Panther Party. Black Panther History: On April 25th, 1967, the first issue of The Black Panther, the party's official news organ, goes into distribution.
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