By Signe Waller Foxworth (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The lead article in our Jan./Feb. 2006 P&R was Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation, by Marty Nathan and Signe Waller, followed by a short update in our May-June 2006 issue. While down in Greensboro in September to speak at a HUD housing … [Read more...] about “Greensboro’s Radical Experiment in Democracy” by Signe Waller Foxworth (November-December 2008 Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Joint Resolution of Apology to Native People” by John Dossett (November-December 2008 P&R Issue)
By John Dossett (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Over the past several sessions of Congress, several Senators and Representatives have introduced a Congressional Resolution “to acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the United States Government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples … [Read more...] about “Joint Resolution of Apology to Native People” by John Dossett (November-December 2008 P&R Issue)
“American Indian Boarding Schools” (November-December 2008 P&R Issue)
Brief History During the 19th century and into the 20th century, American Indian children were forcibly abducted from their homes to attend Christian and U.S. government-run boarding schools as a matter of state policy. This system had its beginnings in the 1600's when John Eliot erected praying towns for American Indians, where he separated them out from their communities … [Read more...] about “American Indian Boarding Schools” (November-December 2008 P&R Issue)
“The Kerner Commission: Remembering, Forgetting and Truth-Telling” by Bruce R. Thomas (July-August 2008 P&R Issue)
By Bruce R. Thomas (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (NACCD) released its report 40 years ago—on March 1, 1968. The NACCD was popularly known as the Kerner Commission, after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois. The Vice-Chair was New York City Mayor John Lindsay. Kerner was a Democrat, Lindsay a … [Read more...] about “The Kerner Commission: Remembering, Forgetting and Truth-Telling” by Bruce R. Thomas (July-August 2008 P&R Issue)
“The Worst Massacre of Blacks by Whites in U.S. History – And the Lessons It Teaches Today” by Charles Lane (May-June 2008 P&R Issue)
By Charles Lane (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) On April 13, 1873, the United States experienced the worst one-day slaughter of blacks by whites in its history. In tiny Colfax, La., white paramilitaries attacked lightly armed African-American freedmen who had assembled in a local courthouse to defend their elected officeholders. By the time the Colfax … [Read more...] about “The Worst Massacre of Blacks by Whites in U.S. History – And the Lessons It Teaches Today” by Charles Lane (May-June 2008 P&R Issue)
