Free Genealogy and Family History Online - The USGenWeb Project-Mozilla Firefox American Rhetoric: Eleanor Roosevelt -- "The Struggle for Human Rights" 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.
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. 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. “That there are some who were untouched or, indeed, did rather well isn’t exactly news. Copyright © 2000 Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. The Hard Times Recordings
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 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. The Black Panther: [off-site link] Articles from 1968-69 In October of 1967, the police arrest the Defense Minister of the Panthers, Huey Newton, for killing an Oakland cop. Stokely Carmichael: The Basis of Black Power Warning to So-Called “Paper Panthers”, The Black Panther, September 28, 1968 U.S. Links: