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The NCCJ promoted a "National Brotherhood Day" in the 1930s, expanding to Brotherhood Week starting in 1936 with President Franklin D. Roosevelt named honorary chairman. [2] In 1944 the week included extensive radio programming, military and USO participation, and an "education program of nationwide scope" aimed at "extending good will and ...
"National Brotherhood Week" – race relations in the U.S.; specifically, a week-long program sponsored by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) held generally during the third week of February from the 1940s through the 1980s. (Lehrer: "It's fun to eulogize the people you despise, as long as you don't let 'em in your school.")
Lehrer in Loomis School's 1943 yearbook. Thomas Andrew Lehrer was born on April 9, 1928, to a secular Jewish family and grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side. [2] [3] He is the son of Morris James Lehrer (1897–1986) and Anna Lehrer (née Waller; 1905–1978) and older brother of Barry Waller Lehrer (1930–2007).
History, Skutt Catholic High School Timeline , Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company , retrieved 2021-02-18 V. J. Skutt Named Chairman of National Brotherhood Week for 1966 , Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 1 December 1965 , retrieved 2021-02-18
The National Conference of Christians and Jews printed and distributed a million copies in commemoration of National Brotherhood Week. The series is a masterpiece in Diversity Awareness/Education. Cartoonist
In February, the National Conference of Christians and Jews renamed Miller chairman of the National Brotherhood Week Press Committee for another year. In June, he departed for a 23-day tour of Russia that featured an interview with the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Chairman of the ...
The National Brotherhood of Workers of America (NBWA) was the largest body of organised African American workers in the United States of America in 1919. [ 1 ] First congress
Textile workers, many of whom were children of Irish descent, launched the 1835 Paterson textile strike in the silk mills in Paterson, New Jersey fighting for the 11-hour day, 6 days a week. [6] 1836 (United States) National Cooperative Association of Cordwainers formed in New York City. This association was the first national union for a ...