by Susan | Dec 31, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 31, 1963 President Lyndon Johnson escorted Gerri Wittington, an African-American and one of his personal secretaries in the White House, to the New Year’s Eve Ball at the University of Texas Faculty Club (known as the Forty Acres Club) in Austin, Texas. The...
by Susan | Dec 30, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1790 Etta Lubina Johanna Palm d’Aelders, a Dutch feminist outspoken during the French Revolution, gave the address Discourse on the Injustice of the Laws in Favour of Men at the Expense of Women to the French National Convention. In this speech, she...
by Susan | Dec 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 29, 1890 In the final chapter of America’s long Indian wars, the U.S. Cavalry killed 146 Sioux at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Throughout 1890, the U.S. government worried about the increasing influence at Pine Ridge of the...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
December 28, 1973 President Nixon signed into law the Endangered Species Act. The first list of endangered species contained Gray whales. The Gray whale was removed from the list in 1994 when the population climbed back to about...
by Susan | Dec 27, 2016 | Good to Know!
1 Gantan-sai (New Years) – Shinto 1 Holy Name of Jesus – Orthodox Christian 5 Twelfth Night – Christian 5 Guru Gobindh Singh birthday – Sikh 6 Epiphany – Christian 6 Dia de los Reyes (Three Kings Day) – Christian 7 Feast of the...
