by Susan | Aug 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
August 2, 1937 The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 became law, rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal in the United...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
No Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded from 1939 through 1943. In 1939 there were seven viable nominations: Mahatma Gandhi, American peace activist Carrie Chapman Catt, Swedish pacifist Carl Lindhagen, French union leader Léon Jouhaux, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2016 | Monuments
This statue was dedicated at the Balloon Museum August 4, 2013. The Children’s Peace Statue is a monument designed and funded entirely by children. In the fall of 1989, children of Arroyo del Oso Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico were studying the Arms...
by Susan | Aug 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
August 1, 1842 The Lombard Street riot erupted in Philadelphia. In the morning,1,000 members of the black Young Men’s Vigilant Association held a parade in commemoration of the eighth anniversary of the end of slavery in Jamaica. As the paraders neared Mother...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1938 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Nansen International Office for Refugees, part of the League of Nations, for its work in aiding refugees. The office was established in 1930, after the death of Laureate Fridhof Nansen and, at the time, was mainly charged...
