by Susan | Jun 7, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 7, 1893 Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. It was his first act of civil...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2016 | Monuments
The events of the night of 7 June 1893 changed the course of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. The young Indian lawyer had come to South Africa for work. He was traveling from Durban to Johannesburg and had a first class ticket for the train. He was told to leave the...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 6, 1936 The Senate approved the La Follette Committee, which investigated violations of the civil liberties of workers and labor unions by employers. The official name of the committee was the Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2016 | peacemaker birthdays
June 6, 1860 Dean Inge “It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.” June 6, 1939 Marian Wright Edelman “You just need to be...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
June 5, 1972 Jane Briggs Hart, the wife of Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Michigan), informed the Internal Revenue Service that she wouldn’t pay some of her taxes; instead, she deposited her quarterly estimated tax of $6,200 in a special bank account. She wrote: “I...
