by Susan | Nov 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 20, 1962 President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order mandating an end to housing discrimination. The presidential order, which came in the midst of an upsurge in the civil rights movement, banned federally funded housing agencies from denying...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2015 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy in battle there. His carefully...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2015 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. Leading up to the 67th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union — WCTU — was founded in Ohio to create a “sober and pure world” by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity. The WCTU was interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, the campaigns...
