by Susan | May 6, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 6, 1953 Radical artist William Gropper was called to testify before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He had allowed the State Department to distribute prints of his painting celebrating American folklore. Senator Joseph McCarthy considered the...
by Susan | May 5, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 5, 1919 The National Conference on Lynching, held in New York City, marked the beginning of a decades-long but ultimately unsuccessful campaign for a federal anti-lynching law. An estimated 2,500 people, both African-American and white, attended the three-day...
by Susan | May 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 4, 1919 In what has come to be known as the May Forth Movement (五四运动, Wusi Yundong), 5,000 students demonstrated in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory in the present-day Shandong Province to...
by Susan | May 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
May 3, 1954 In Hernandez v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Mexican-Americans and all other racial and ethnic groups were guaranteed equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment. Pedro Hernandez was an agricultural worker in Edina, TX charged...
by Susan | May 2, 2016 | Monuments
The legend of John Henry, the “steel-drivin’ man” who beat the newfangled steel drill in a contest of strength and then died from exhaustion, is probably based on a real person, claimed by West Virginia as happening at the Great Bend Tunnel of the C&O...
