The year was 1968; MLK was assassinated, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, thousands of Americans had been killed in Vietnam, the United States of America was a powder keg, and it was ready to blow.
Year: 2024
A Militant Priest’s Nonviolence: Critical Reception of Father Groppi
As marches proliferated in the Jim Crow South during the 1960s, movements also gathered in the North, protesting segregated housing and unequal treatment of Black Americans. In Milwaukee, a priest named Father Groppi—after witnessing the maltreatment of Black Milwaukeeans throughout his youth and adulthood—decided to use his position in church leadership to aid the efforts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to achieve fair housing.
The Peaceful Revolution: The Fall of a Wall and the Rise of Democracy
The Fall of the Berlin Wall was a monumental moment in history, signifying liberation for East Germans and the reunification of Germany. Now taught as the symbolic end of the Cold War, the collapse of this physical representation of the Iron Curtain abolished the oppressive Soviet regime over East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
The Power and Promise of Nonviolent Action with Dr. Maria J. Stephan
On November 15, 2023, The Nonviolence Project, in conjunction with the Center for Interfaith Dialogue and the Interfaith Peace Working Group, hosted Dr. Maria J. Stephan for a talk titled The Power and Promise of …