Beshears: Pamphlet

Name/Title

Beshears: Pamphlet

Entry/Object ID

2022.40.33

Scope and Content

A folded pamphlet containing "Speakers, Panelists, Resource Leaders & Participants at - the 'National Assembly on Progress in Equality Of Opportunity In Housing'", held March 18 - 20, 1965 in Springfield, Illinois, Sponsored by - The Foundation For Freedom And Democracy In Community Life, Inc.

Context

Front page has the listings of all 50 states inside architectural columns, the base of which read "Liberty on the left and Under Law" on the right. "A VITAL NATIONAL EVALUATION of the road ahead in community-by community implementation of the 1964 Federal Civil Rights Act and the responsibilities of positive voluntary individual action in states and communities, meeting the challenge of THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - "Everyone has the right to FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT and RESIDENCE within the border of each state." A conference of civic, business, labor, religious and federal, state and local governmental leaders exploring the constitutional human right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness including the pursuit of a home." Three plus pages of the pamphlet contain 115 pictures of those participants and leaders and their City/State represented at The National Assembly.

Collection

Beshears, Kelsey

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Pamphlet

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Details

Primary Language

English

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

8½" x 11"