by Susan | Jan 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 2, 1903 President Theodore Roosevelt shut down the Post Office in Indianola, Mississippi when white supremacists threatened the postmistress, Minnie M. Cox, an African-American. The president told the citizens that they would receive no mail until Mrs. Cox...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 1, 1919 Suffragists led by Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party greeted the New Year by conducting the first of several “Watch Fire” demonstrations in front of the White House, which involved burning copies of President Woodrow Wilson’s speeches in an urn....
by Susan | Dec 31, 2015 | Good to Know!
1 Mary, Mother of God – Catholic Christian Feast Day of St Basil – Orthodox Christian Gantan-sai (New Years) – Shinto 5 Twelfth Night – Christian Guru Gobindh Singh birthday – Sikh 6 Epiphany – Christian Feast of the Epiphany...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 31, 1967 The Youth International Party was founded. Commonly called Yippies, it was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. They employed theatrical gestures, such as...
by Susan | Dec 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
December 30, 1952 Tuskegee Institute reported that 1952 was the first year in 71 years of record keeping that no one was lynched in the United...
