Lincoln on War and Freedom in the Civil War Era
The passage recounts Lincoln’s stated priority to save the Union over ending slavery, notes about Negro soldiers and sailors in the Union forces, their pay and rights struggles, and key moments like Fort Pillow and the Emancipation Proclamation. It reflects on abolitionist pressure and the 15th Amendment, asking whether true freedom had come after 300 years of slavery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Lincoln
America
South
Fort
Pillow
Tenn
Fort Sumter
Confederacy
Lincoln
Wendell Phillips
William Lloyd Garrison
Terry
Harris County
Federal
The Busy Summer Ahead for Suburban Youth in 1968
A NEA feature outlines a midwestern city’s planned recreation program for youngsters in the summer of 1968. It emphasizes sports and outdoor activity with basketball, baseball for boys, softball for girls, soccer, tennis, swimming, lifeguard courses, and a Junior Olympics pathway, plus art, science, bands, playschool, baton twirling, synchronized swimming, and youth canteens run two nights weekly under community supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Crossley
NEA
Inj
Soviet press wary as Gromyko offers talks on arms
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reports that Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko expressed willingness to discuss curtailing offensive and defensive rockets with the United States, while the Soviet press signals fear of Western bridge building and movements for reform. Kremlin concerns include Eastern Europe, China, Vietnam, and a broader shift in global Communism, suggesting detente faces significant obstacles despite the offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. Ryan
Soviet Union
Kremlin
United States
Europe
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gromyko
Vietnam
Kremdin
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Don Oakley
John Lane
Jack Armstrong the _ All-American
F.S.L.C
Ssseseson
Baytown, Texas
TRY
SUN
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Red China
Asia
John’s Post Central Lyoqua
Kettering
FORD
Houston
Allstate
Sears
Sears and
SAVE
Blackwall
Guardsman
Filius
Eld Tire
Texas
Sears, Roebuck and CO
Baytown
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