by Susan | Feb 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 25, 1957 The US Supreme Court voided Michigan law banning sale of books that might corrupt youth. In Butler v. Michigan Justice Frankfurter wrote: “The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2016 | Season for Nonviolence
25. Friendliness To humorist Will Rogers, strangers were simply friends he hadn’t met. View those you encounter today in that light. Make a new...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 24, 1969 One hundred Texas Rangers were sent to Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, the oldest Black college west of the Mississippi, in response to nonviolent student demonstrations concerning substandard dorm conditions. The Rangers swept the dorms for...
by Susan | Feb 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 23, 1954 The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh. Salk campaigned for mandatory vaccination, claiming that public health should be considered a “moral commitment.” His sole focus had been to...
by Susan | Feb 23, 2016 | Season for Nonviolence
Today we start the next phase of the Season for Nonviolence. For the first 23 days we concentrated on personal actions we could take. Today we move to the interpersonal. In order to create a peaceful world, we must learn to practice nonviolence with one another in our...
