Opinion – Page 956 – People's World

The unfinished business of school desegregation

October 8, 2004 By Special to People’s World

This nation’s flawed story of desegregation: the resistance since 1954 to integration by Northern public schools despite many challenges by parents and civil rights activists.

America the Beautiful a call to struggle

September 17, 2004 By Tim Yeager

In 1893, a 34-year-old English teacher from Massachusetts rode a mule to the top of Pike’s Peak in Colorado. As she stood at the summit, she beheld the vista of the Great Plains spreading out to...

Kerry, Bush and the ghosts of Vietnam

September 17, 2004

Opinion A rag-tag army of Vietnam veterans marched into D.C. in their combat fatigues that chill April morning in 1971, their tunics bedecked with medals and battle ribbons. “Hey Nixon, you can’t hide, we charge you...

Chicano Moratorium Aug. 29: 1970 and 2004

August 27, 2004 By Rosalío Muñoz

The massive Aug. 29 demonstration in New York against the Bush agenda will be a historic event for our nation.

How to win: a call of conscience

August 13, 2004

Twenty years ago, I stood before the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, to speak of the hopes and dreams of Americans who, lacking voice in their everyday...