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Book Youth Seeks Peace  Freedom and Progress

Download or read book Youth Seeks Peace Freedom and Progress written by William W. Hinckley and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Isms

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  • Author : American Legion. National Americanism Commission
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Isms written by American Legion. National Americanism Commission and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the Old Left was Young

Download or read book When the Old Left was Young written by Robert Cohen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American college students during the Age of Roosevelt confronted two of the gravest crises in the twentieth century: the Great Depression and the growing international tensions that ultimately led to World War II. These crises generated more idealism than despair, politicizing undergraduates, who built the first mass student movement in American history. Led by leftists, this movement responded to the crisis in international relations by organizing national student strikes against war and fascism - which at their height in the mid-1930s mobilized almost half of the undergraduate population in the United States. While battling for peace in the international arena, the student movement responded to the Depression in America by waging a war on poverty. The movement championed a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. Demanding "scholarships not battleships," Depression-era student activists pushed for federal educational funding and job programs for all needy young Americans. The student movement tested the limits of free speech on campus. Anti-radical college administrators sought to suppress the movement, provoking major battles over political expression. Though Depression-era student protests were almost always nonviolent and lawful, college administrators nonetheless turned over confidential information about their activist students to the Federal Bureau of Investigation - abrogating the First Amendment rights of these young activists. When the Old Left Was Young offers the first comprehensive history of the Depression-era student movement and its activism on behalf of peace, social justice, and free speech. The study explores the role that radicals - and particularly Communists - played in launching and leading the movement. Avoiding the polemics of Cold War-era historiography, When the Old Left Was Young presents Communist students in all their complexity; they emerge on these pages as idealistic champions of egalitarian social change, but also as manipulative political organizers whose eagerness to serve as apologists for the U.S.S.R. ultimately destroyed the student movement in the wake of the Nazi-Soviet pact and the Soviet invasion of Finland. Based upon sources generally ignored by political historians, including student newspapers, university records, FBI documents, and interviews with movement leaders, this book offers new insights into American political life during the Depression era. Revealing fascinating individual stories in this history of student insurgency, When the Old Left Was Young will be of key interest to readers concerned with the history of American education, youth, radicalism, free speech, U.S. and Soviet foreign policy, race relations, and the Great Depression.

Book Fighting Authoritarianism

Download or read book Fighting Authoritarianism written by Britt Haas and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Depression, young radicals centered in New York City developed a vision of and for America, molded by their understanding of recent historical events, in particular the Great War and the global economic collapse, as well as by the events unfolding both at home and abroad. They worked to make their vision of a free, equal, democratic society based on peaceful coexistence a reality. Their attempts were ultimately unsuccessful but their voices were heard on a number of important issues, including free speech, racial justice, and peace. A major contribution to the historiography of the era of the Great Depression, Fighting Authoritarianism provides a new and important examination of U.S. youth activism of the 1930s, including the limits of the New Deal and how youth activists continually pushed FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other New Dealers to do more to address economic distress, more inclusionary politics, and social inequality. In this study, author Britt Haas questions the interventionist versus isolationist paradigm in that young people sought to focus on both domestic and international affairs. Haas also explores the era not as a precursor to WWII, but as a moment of hope when the prospect of institutionalizing progress in freedom, equality, and democracy seemed possible. Fighting Authoritarianism corrects misconceptions about these young activists’ vision for their country, heavily influenced by the American Dream they had been brought up to revere: they wanted a truly free, truly democratic, and truly equal society. That meant embracing radical ideologies, especially socialism and communism, which were widely discussed, debated, and promoted on New York City college campuses. They believed that in embracing these ideologies, they were not turning their backs on American values. Instead, they believed that such ideologies were the only way to make America live up to its promises. This study also outlines the careers of Molly Yard, Joseph Lash, and James Wechsler, how they retracted (and for Yard and Lash, reclaimed) their radical past, and how New York continued to hold a prominent platform in their careers. Lash and Wechsler both worked for the New York Post, the latter as editor until 1980. Examining the Depression decade from the perspective of young activists highlights the promise of America as young people understood it: a historic moment when anything seemed possible.

Book American Youth Act

Download or read book American Youth Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letter from Birmingham Jail

Download or read book Letter from Birmingham Jail written by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.

Book States of Childhood

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  • Author : Jennifer S. Light
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2020-07-14
  • ISBN : 0262358611
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book States of Childhood written by Jennifer S. Light and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How "virtual adulthood"--children's role play in simulated cities, states, and nations--helped construct a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American young people. A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults. They performed real work--passing laws, growing food, and constructing buildings, among other tasks--inside virtual worlds. In this book, Jennifer Light examines the phenomena of "junior republics" and argues that they marked the transition to a new kind of "sheltered" childhood for American youth. Banished from the labor force and public life, children inhabited worlds that mirrored the one they had left. Light describes the invention of junior republics as independent institutions and how they were later established at schools, on playgrounds, in housing projects, and on city streets, as public officials discovered children's role playing helped their bottom line. The junior republic movement aligned with cutting-edge developmental psychology and educational philosophy, and complemented the era’s fascination with models and miniatures, shaping educational and recreational programs across the nation. Light’s account of how earlier generations distinguished "real life" from role playing reveals a hidden history of child labor in America and offers insights into the deep roots of such contemporary concepts as gamification, play labor, and virtuality.

Book For the Strength of Youth

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  • Author : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Publisher : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN : 1465107665
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book For the Strength of Youth written by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book was released on 1965 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR DEAR YOUNG MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN, we have great confidence in you. You are beloved sons and daughters of God and He is mindful of you. You have come to earth at a time of great opportunities and also of great challenges. The standards in this booklet will help you with the important choices you are making now and will yet make in the future. We promise that as you keep the covenants you have made and these standards, you will be blessed with the companionship of the Holy Ghost, your faith and testimony will grow stronger, and you will enjoy increasing happiness.

Book American Youth Act  Hearings Before a Subcommittee    on S  1463   March 7  8  9  10  and 11  1938   75th Cong   3d Sess

Download or read book American Youth Act Hearings Before a Subcommittee on S 1463 March 7 8 9 10 and 11 1938 75th Cong 3d Sess written by United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 728 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decisions of the United States Courts Involving Copyright

Download or read book Decisions of the United States Courts Involving Copyright written by United States. Courts and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The UNESCO Youth Forum

Download or read book The UNESCO Youth Forum written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Download or read book The Universal Declaration of Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Weekly Review

Download or read book Weekly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Youth Movements Here and Abroad

Download or read book Youth Movements Here and Abroad written by Russell Sage Foundation. Library and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Legislative Assembly Debates  Official Report

Download or read book The Legislative Assembly Debates Official Report written by India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: