Sentences with phrase «american peace movement»

The American peace movement of the 1930s benefited from a retrospective distaste for the Great War of 1914 - 1918.

What will become of this prospering American peace movement?

The program — which was mandated to find proof that foreign elements supported the American peace movement (any kind of support, even «encouragement,» «casual contacts» or «mutual interest»)-- was not halted until March 1974.

The pre-1914 French, German and American peace movements all possessed an unduly legalistic notion of what peace involved.

Not exact matches

But few Africans share the same concerns of the peace movement in the Euro - American community.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

A country that was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all will remember how justice was too long denied to African - Americans, how the civil rights movement made clear that separate is not equal, and how King's dream of all people living together in peace was «deeply rooted in the American dream.»

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

The AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) actually only recommends movement sensors for certain at - risk babies, but for some parents who really want a peace of mind with regard to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), they feel this is an option they truly care about.

From the battles of the unemployed and the campaigns to organize the CIO in the 1930s - 40s, through the civil rights and peace movements of the 1950s,»60s and»70s to the struggles that have given us the «new» labor movement, to the people's upsurge that elected our first African American president, and now the growing movements for a progressive, people's agenda — the 99 % — People's World and Mundo Popular have been there.

An American, post-war, figurative painter, Golub was heavily involved in the anti-Vietnam war peace movement.

But just because this Central American country has been a pioneer in the so called eco-tourism industry for over 25 years, they seem to be ahead of the curve, and the talks from the Planet, People, Peace conference TreeHugger has been invited to cover have actually been quite good.A conclusion from the first day of the event, yesterday, was that the tourism industry seems to be maturing along with other segments of the «green» movement.

The deeper meanings beyond a forbidden love with a girl from Guanatanamo Bay were frequently invoked during the Spanish - American War (1898), the Cuban - American Treaty (1903), all the way up to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), when the song entered the mainstream through the peace movement.