Next week the Peace Corps turns 55. Today’s Throwback Thursday is an excerpt from an article in the Sunday Bulletin Magazine from 1962 tracing AFSC’s influence on the creation of the Peace Corps. (If you’re interested in the full article a PDF is available here: bit.ly/VISAprogram).
Did you know that Angela Davis went to high school on scholarship from AFSC through our Southern Student Project ( the program supported Black students at segregated schools in the South to go to high school at integrated schools in the North)? This article, pulled from our archives, is from a 1970 feature article on her in LIFE magazine.
Some photos from our archives of AFSC’s early work for racial justice (including working with MLK).
More at afsc.org/bhm
Throwback Thursday! This week is the 25th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Desert Storm.
How have U.S. military interventions over the past few decades destabilized the region? Join us Jan 27, 2016 for our live-streamed conversation “Overwhelmed: Syrian Refugee Crisis in Context”–details and RSVP: afsc.org/hangout
A brief history of AFSC’s work to free Japanese-Americans from internment camps and rebuild communities with housing and jobs: http://afsc.org/story/american-refugeesthe-japanese-american-relocation
Pamphlet covers from the 1970s from our archives.
(full pamphlets at http://afsc.org/resource/archives-healing-justice-resources)
Today is the anniversary of the original “open letter”–Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail” (April 16, 1963) which AFSC published and distributed.
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