Forum on genesis and persistence in advocacy for peace. Faith organizations. My name is john roth. I am editor of the mennonite orderly review and professor of history at Goshen College in northern indiana. I am delighted to serve as moderator of this conversation. Anyone who has taken a tour of the museum here or seen footage of the flag waving parades of enthusiastic young conscripts as they departed for military Training Camp in the summer of 1917 might have the impression that support for the war and the United States entry into the conflict was universal. Yet those of us gathered here for this conference are keenly aware that there were many voices of caution, of dissent, of objection, and even open resistance to the war fever that seemed to grip the nation in the spring and summer of 1917. As we will hear in the days that followed, that dissent originated from many different sources and took many expressions. But one of the lead edges of resistance to the war came from various re
Sue Elvie Bailey Thurman, a Pine Bluff native, was an author, historian and pioneer in civil rights and racial equality who helped shape and counsel civil rights leaders of the 1950s and 1960s.
When Noelle Trent starts as president and chief executive of the museum on June 12, she returns to the city where her parents studied and raised their family. She was born here.
At the 150th anniversary of the Indian independence leader and philosopher of non-violence, looking back long line of African-American leaders influenced by his ideas.