civil rights
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Sunday Gathering: Red Emma’s Outrageous Women, Matzo Ball Soup, and Revolutionary Tea Social
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Don your most outrageous hat and join us for a different kind of Mother’s Day brunch. We will celebrate women by paying tribute to Emma Goldman, internationally famous anarchist and […]
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Revelations on a Revolution
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For those who ask what was accomplished in the Sixties and whether the gains from that time have eroded, who wonder if our nation today, with Black Lives Matter, Me Too, and climate strikes, is built on the lessons of the Sixties, a new book, “Our Sixties, An Activist’s History,” by Paul Lauter, offers answers.Read…
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Alan Kaufman, Freedom Rider
In 1961, Alan Kaufman traveled to Mississippi along with several hundred other students – white and black – who took buses and trains into the South to challenge Jim Crow. They were arrested and sent to jail, in Alan’s case 23 days in Mississippi’s Parchman State Penitentiary, a maximum security facility. Read More
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Society Member Donates Bust of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Society member Janet Glass wrote this letter to fellow member Dwight Panozzo about his donation to our Society of a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. “On behalf of the […]
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The radical Martin Luther King Jr. we do not know
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By Dr. Joseph Chuman Martin Luther King Day is almost upon us and its advent comes for me with a sense of ambivalence. That King is worthy of a national […]
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Society to honor civil rights activist Theodora Lacey
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Theodora Lacey of Teaneck, civil rights activist and educator, will receive the Jack Rubinstein Ethical Humanist Award at our Society’s Installation Dinner on Saturday, June 3, at 6 pm at […]
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The Farther Reaches of America’s Racism
By Dr. Joe Chuman, Jan 3, 2016 Preview of the address The New Year usually arrives on the wings of hope and the anticipation that the year aborning will usher […]
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Is Respect for Culture Good for Women?
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, May 4, 2014 It is a well-worn cliché that we can look at the glass as half full or as half empty. What is […]
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Three Moral Heroes Who Were Also Ethical Culturists
Platform address by Dr. Joseph Chuman, leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Bergen County Dec. 4, 2011 In 2002, a 32-year-old Irish-born American journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for […]
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