14,993 research outputs found
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
Stetson Kennedy lecture 'Building Democracy in America' in conversation with Peggy Bulger
No full textThis interview is included in the American Folklore Society Oral History Project held at the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. This item includes a digital video and analog sound recording of the Stetson Kennedy and Peggy Bulger lecture and discussion; one black-and-white photograph of Stetson Kennedy seated at the base of a tree taken by Ivy Bigbee; and a program flyer for the event. Kennedy begins by discussing his memories of Benjamin Botkin, and collecting 'folksay' and folklore idioms for the WPA folklore project. Kennedy discusses the WPA Federal Writers' Project in Florida where he worked with Zora Neale Hurston, and others in the 1930s; his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during World War II; and his books on the Ku Klux Klan and race relations in the South. He also discusses his relationships and friendships with folklorists, writers, and others, including Richard Wright, Alan Lomax, and Woody Guthrie. The discussion concludes with a question and answer session, where Kennedy discusses the WPA former slave interviews. This collection consists of 1 folder, 1 black and white 8 x 10 in. photographic print, 1 analog sound cassette (60 min.), and 1 video file (57 min.). 'Stetson Kennedy, folklorist, social activist, and author, in conversation with Peggy Bulger, Director of the American Folklife Center.' Webcast of this event is available on the Library of Congress website, accessed June 21, 2007. Recorded in Room 119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on May 24, 2005 from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m
Ethel Kennedy Valentine photograph
No full textThe John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts
Kerry Kennedy: Speak Truth to Power
No full textKerry Kennedy, author of the book Speak Truth To Power, highlights issues of human rights during times when the United States is recovering from terrorist attacks and engaging in war with Iraq. She frames her discussion within the notion of maintaining homeland security while upholding and valuing the civil rights of citizens. Women\u27s issues, particularly domestic violence, are mentioned as one area in which Americans are challenged to maintain nationalistic ideologies.
The daughter of Ethel Kennedy and the late Robert F. Kennedy, she served as executive director and is now on the board of directors of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, a nonprofit organization she organized in 1988 that addresses the problems of social justice. She also directed the National Juvenile Justice Project, which helps cities create more effective and less costly programs for dealing with young offenders, and the RFK Journalism and RFK Book Awards, which recognize authors who prod the public conscience and expose the problems of the dispossessed.
Chair of the Amnesty International Leadership Council, Kennedy is a judge for the Reebok Human Rights Award and serves on the boards of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the Bloody Sunday Trust. She is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bar associations
Unknown Anzac : and other poems / by Victor Kennedy.
No full textElectronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2012.; Library's Whelan copy inscribed and signed by the author
Professor Paul Kennedy – The power game
No full textPaul Kennedy has spent the last academic year as LSE’s Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs, based in LSE IDEAS. Here the author of ‘The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers’ summarises his lectures to IDEAS on American power, and you can hear the podcasts of the lectures using the link at the top of the page
Dr. Dorrance Kennedy - A. Philip Randolph
No full textDr. Dorrance Kennedy speaks at the Chesnutt Library of Fayetteville State University about his research into Black History Month and activist A. Philip Randolph.
Presented live on February 27, 2025 as part of Chesnutt Library\u27s Faculty Author Series.https://digitalcommons.uncfsu.edu/faculty_author/1011/thumbnail.jp
Harriet Anna Kennedy papers, W.0117
No full textAbstract: Notebook of poems written by Harriet Anna Kennedy between 1863-1864. A letter and a small collection of later poems written by Kennedy and members of her extended family are also included.Scope and Content Note: This ninety-six page notebook contains a collection of poems written by Harriet Anna Kennedy, the wife of plantation owner Warren Eason Kennedy. Writing under the pseudonyms "Crazy Carrie" and "Carrie Carlton," Kennedy describes her daily life in Greensboro, Alabama, in a series of satirical poems. Written between April 1863 and March 1864, the poems provide insight into Kennedy's views on marriage, family, and her medical treatment. The views that Kennedy expresses, especially on marriage, are often negative. In one poem, "Answer to 'The old maid's lament,'" Kennedy advises her niece to remain unmarried, writing "I do not hesitate to say that if you marry you will your husband hate!" In her poems, Kennedy describes frequent hardships, including food shortages that affect the family.The collection also includes a letter and three pages of poetry that are not bound in the notebook. The poems are addressed to Kennedy's daughter, Bettie Eborn and includes poems written by Kennedy and others. The letter, dated July 26, 1903, is a condolence letter dated July 26, 1903. The letter was addressed to Corinne Eborn, the wife of Bettie Eborn's son Benjamin F. Eborn, and was written shortly after the death of Corinne's daughter Mary.Note: There is some question as to the true identity of Crazy Carrie. The author might have been Bettie Eborn, daughter of Harriet Anna Kennedy.Biographical/Historical Note: The daughter of Robert Lanier and Edith Pearce, Harriet Anna Lanier was born on August 4, 1817, in Pitt, North Carolina. She married Warren Eason Kennedy (1813-1882) on November 18, 1833. Census records compiled in 1850 and 1860 list Kennedy as a plantation owner living in Greensboro, Alabama
Randall L. Kennedy: Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
No full textRandall L. Kennedy is an American law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life. He specializes in the areas of contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court.
Kennedy was born September 10, 1954, in Columbia, South Carolina, the middle child of Henry Kennedy Sr., a postal worker, and Rachel Kennedy, an elementary school teacher. He has two siblings, Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., a former United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, and Angela Kennedy, a lawyer at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Kennedy has stated that tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in his household. His father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue Rice vs. Elmore, the case that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina\u27s Democratic primary. Later that decade, fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, his parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C.
Kennedy attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., Princeton University (A.B. cum laude, 1977), the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar (graduate studies, 1977–79), and Yale Law School (J.D., 1982). While at Yale, Kennedy served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982–83 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court from 1983-84. He was admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar in 1983. Additionally, he is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Association
Speech delivered by Amb. Kennedy Kator Ajom at the Award/ Publuic presentation of royal tussle
No full textAmb. Kennedy Kator Ajom is an author- publisher of three books who has attended only public schools in his life. He is the author of "Royal Tussle" a story of the quest and brutal fight for a throne.Inspiration; Literacy Journey; Challenges of Young Authors; Advis
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