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The Vanguard (Vol. 23, No. 4), May 1976, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Dr. Robert Marshall, President of The Lutheran Church in America and Dr. David Preus, President of the American Lutheran Church were among 27 U.S. religious leaders who have urged Congress to pass the Right-to-Food resolution suggesting that such action "would be a worthy way for the nation to mark its bicentennial."

The Vanguard (Vol. 23, No. 10), Dec 1976, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Letters to President Gerald Ford from Lutheran leaders - along with those from other church officials - are credited with encouraging the signing into law the Indian Health Improvement Act. The new law will provide $480 million over the next three years.

The House of Representatives had passed the bill 310 to 9 in mid-summer. The Senate later approved the House version of the bill. But the Ford Administration had opposed the legislation from the beginning, primarily because it exceeded proposed budget limitations.

The Vanguard (Vol. 23, No. 9), Nov 1976, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Beginning November 1, some 500 people in the Summit-University area of St. Paul, Minnesota, will have a new way to put much needed food on their tables.

With the help of a $5400 grant from Missouri Synod World Relief, the LHRAA Coordinator Program in St. Paul is ready to begin its "grocery on wheels" project.

The Vanguard (Vol. 23, No. 8), Oct 1976, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Right to Food Resolution - drafted with the help of Bread for the World - was passed by Congress just before its adjournment. The resolution spent a great deal of time in House and Senate committees, but versions of the resolution were passed by both bodies in late September.

A House-Senate conference committee resolved differences in the two versions, and the resolution then easily passed.

A Comparison Of Low And Middle Socio-Economic Status Blacks On Two Measures Of Intelligence, Anthony Young

Masters Theses

The testing of persons with highly dissimilar cultural backrounds has received increasing attention since mid-century. In America, the practical problems of cross-cultural testing has been chiefly associated with subcultures or minority cultures within the dominate culture. Havinghurst (1951), in citing cultural differences which may affect intelligence performance named social class among the major types of culture in the U.S. A review of the literature revealed that research is close to unanimous in showing that there are significant differences in intelligence performance of children and youth from different socio-economic backrounds. These findings revealed that children of higher socio-economic status (SES) levels …

Public Welfare: Utilization, Change, Appropriations, Service, John E. Tropman

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

During the decade of the 1960's there was continually increasing interest in the programs of public welfare. This interest sprang from several sources. Citizens, always worried about welfare expenditures, developed resurgent concern. Recipients, long a quiet group, became more active, forming the National Welfare Rights Organization. And then there was the rediscovery of poverty as a social problem, and a realization that very many Americans were poor, many more than anyone had somehow realized.

The general interest in poverty and the measures used to relieve it had an effect on the academic community, generating some sustained and critical attention to …

Low Income, Ethnicity, And Voluntary Association Involvement, Nancy G. Kutner

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Data on voluntary association participation among low-income members of major ethnic groups in the U.S. are reviewed. Low-income blacks are most likely to participate, followed by (2) whites and Mexican Americans and (3) Italian Americans and Puerto Ricans. Reasons for these ethnic differences are considered. More general factors affecting voluntary association patterns of low-income persons are also considered, and a means for increasing their voluntary association involvement is suggested.

Robert M. O'Neil's Discriminating Against Discrimination: A Review, Karen Ruse Strueh

IUSTITIA

It is difficult these days to find anyone who will deny that racial minorities have been discriminated against in the area of educational opportunities. Few will deny the desirability of enhancing these opportunities and increasing the number of minority persons in the various professions. But very few will agree on the means that are appropriate to accomplish this desirable end. Robert O'Neil has tackled the awesome task of pinpointing and evaluating the policy considerations that affect the tough choices involved in formulating standards for admissions to professional school programs that will promote academic quality but at the same time allow …

Residential Segregation In Metropolitan Connecticut, Kenneth P. Hadden, Thomas Werling

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 5), July 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The Lutheran Human Relations Association of Los Angeles has scored another "first."

A Conference on the Vietnamese: Their Presence Among Us, held June 28 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, initially was planned by the Los Angeles LHRA and Lutheran Social Services. Co-sponsors included the Asian Studies Program of California State University at Long Beach and the Long Beach Campus Ministry.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 6), Aug-Sep 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Tuesday, Sept. 2, has come and gone. The feelings of tension and anxiety have been relaxed. After months of careful planning, desegregation of Racine's schools has gone into effect. It all was achieved with remarkable smoothness.

"To be sure, the school year has just begun and there is more that will have to be done," remarked C. Richard Nelson, superintendent of the Unified School District of Racine. "More than one person has been responsible for the gratifying way in which the new arrangement has been achieved. This entire venture represents the combined efforts of many people in the school district …

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 2), Mar 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

The quality of Lutheran schools serving Black communities in the Southern District of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod is very poor compared to other Lutheran schools in the United States, concludes the recently released report of a study of these schools.

The study, "Teaching Assistance Project," was conducted early last year by Harold Kieschnick, principal of Trinity-Messiah Lutheran School of Houston, Tex.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 1), Jan-Feb 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Ray Belcher's television sales fell off this past Christmas. But he sees it as having been a great holiday season.

Ray, a member of the National Indian Lutheran Board and LuChiP (Lutheran Church and Indian People), had gotten word of the sobering predictions that many Indians will be facing serious cold and hunger problems this winter. (December 1974 VANGUARD)

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 4), June 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

A national coalition for the "internationalization of U.S. mission" has been organized among various national and local Lutheran ministries to help put domestic struggles in perspective to international issues.

At an organizing conference May 12-14 in Cleveland, Ohio, 16 persons from 12 organizations from as far apart as Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and Miami, Fla., met to form the new coalition. They named it the New Wine Exchange

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 10), Dec 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

While Lutheran Human Relations Association-Madison's program aims at social and spiritual support to criminal offenders and ex-offenders, at the same time it provides an integrated approach to community understanding and rehabilitation.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 9), Nov-Dec 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

State troopers for too long a time have come in only one color with little variance in size and shape. This phenomenon was finally brought to the attention of the United States Department of Justice. As a result, civil suits on behalf of Blacks, Spanish-surnamed persons, and women were filed recently against state police forces in Michigan and New Jersey.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 8), Oct-Nov 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Twenty people who serve as coordinators for the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America gathered at the Tollentine Retreat Center near Chicago on Oct. 10-12 to audit their activities and discuss their roles for the months ahead.

Coordinators are individuals or in some instances teams who, appointed by LHRAA as non-salaried, part-time extensions of its staff, give presence to LHRAA's ministry in local communities.

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 3), Apr-May 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Carol Petzold of Rockville, Md., represented the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America at this year's 26th annual meeting of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C.

Headquartered in New York City, the LCCR is a cooperative association of human rights organizations. Its chairman is Roy Wilkins, long-time executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Community Action Programs And Poor People Of Maine : A History, Maine. Division Of Economic Opportunity

Maine Collection

Community Action Programs and Poor People of Maine : A History.
State of Maine. Division of Economic Opportunity. Augusta, Maine, 1975.

Contents: 1.Introduction / 2.Myths of the Poor in Maine / 3.Concepts / 4.Head Start / 5.Legal Services-The Poor and the Law / 6.Health / 7.Native Americans / 8.Housing / 9.The Elderly-Never Too Late to Fight Poverty / 10.Manpower Training / 11.Donated Commodities / 12.Vista / 13.Poverty Is Here to Stay / 14.Results of the War / 15.The Role of SEOO and New Directions for CAP

The Vanguard (Vol. 22, No. 7), Sep-Oct 1975, Lutheran Human Relations Association Of America

The Vanguard

Church support for Indian people is decreasing, it was reported at a conference sponsored jointly by the Lutheran Church and Indian People and the National Indian Lutheran Board.

In the five years that have elapsed since NILB's inception, participants observed, funds gathered for distribution among Indian communities and agencies have been considerably reduced.

Housing Characteristics For Towns And Counties Connecticut: 1970, Thomas E. Steahr, Robert A. Lowe, Charles N. Fitts

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Labor Force Participation And Employment Status In Connecticut, 1970, Kenneth Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

Residential Mobility Of The Population Of Connecticut, 1965-70, Kenneth Hadden

Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

No abstract provided.

The Liberated Black Woman: A Question Of Black Power And Nationalism, Gail E. Bingham

IUSTITIA

The role of the Black woman in the liberation of womankind must first be clearly defined to establish the context in which the term "liberation" is used before discussion of the subject can have any significance. If by the term "liberated," it is meant the throwing off of some kind of yoke of oppression and dehumanization invoked by men which often reflects itself in unequal opportunities and pay scales, particularly in the professional world, then it is highly questionable that the Black woman needs this type of liberation as the ultimate object of her energies and concern.

If on the …

Editor's Introduction -- Lustitia On Women, Sharon Wildey

IUSTITIA

One positive aspect of a newly organized publication is the opportunity for experimentation. With this issue, lustitia will for the first time be devoted to one area of current social concern-the Women's Movement.

Women's struggle for equality is not a recent phenomenon in this country but a recurring one. Thus, in the early 1970's we find women struggling with many issues, new and old.

The editors of this issue present to the readers some of the frontier issues of the Movement today.

Two Hundred Years Later?, Yvonne Stam

IUSTITIA

The revival of feminism is in many ways different from its earlier stage, although this may in large part be due to what the early feminists accomplished. They were more concerned with substantive legal change-property rights, child custody, divorce, suffrage, and others. In addition to filling in some of the substantive right gaps, we today are more concerned with social attitudes and the exercise of legal rights. Although modern-day feminists have advocated the passage of some reform legislation particularly, the Equal Rights Amendment, much of the focus of the movement is on social and cultural changes.

The Equal Rights Amendment As An Instrument For Social Change, Lynn Andretta Fishel, Clarine Nardi Riddle

IUSTITIA

"The Equal Rights Amendment: Will it do so little, we don't need it -or so much, we shouldn't have it?"

The paradox stems from the arguments of the groups who oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). On one hand, they claim that the 14th Amendment and Title V1II provide all the tools women need, so the ERA won't be able to accomplish anything uniquely significant. On the other hand they contend, with even greater fervor, that the ERA will be so powerful it will destroy the fabric of society. The paradox is not altogether ludicrous, however, when it is recognized …

Sexism In Special Education, Patricia H. Gillespie, Albert H. Fink

IUSTITIA

The educational establishment is now reflecting the concerns of womanhood. Grudgingly, and even painfully, it seems to some, the large and complicated system of formal education acknowledges the existence of practices which are sexist both in conception and operation. At one level this sexism is directed, at many levels of awareness, toward the functionaries of the system. The economic oppression of teachers, who are mostly female, is an obvious expression of the phenomenon. Another benchmark is the limited career development opportunities available to women as educational managers and academics.

At yet another level, not the less dangerous for being more …

Feminism And The Legalization Of Prostitution: How Far Down The River?, Marilyn C. Zilli

IUSTITIA

One of the most telling issues on the state of the women's movement today is that of the legalization of prostitution. It would be inappropriate to say that the issue has caused a breach in the ranks: the term is inapplicable to a movement which has never claimed coherency and which has, in fact, consistently demonstrated an inability to reconcile the views of its various factions. The prostitution issue is important, rather, precisely because it underscores these differences of analysis and tactics which have appeared in other areas and the splits between white middle class liberal women, radical feminists, marxist …

The Beginning Of The Women's Movement In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1962, James Wade

IUSTITIA

No abstract provided.