by Susan | Oct 23, 2015 | Cool Video, Friday's Film
Opens October 23 @ the Bijou: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room....
by Susan | Oct 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 22, 1975 Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, was given a “general” discharge by the air force after publicly declaring his homosexuality on the cover to Time Magazine. In 1979, after winning a much-publicized case...
by Susan | Oct 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 21, 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivered a speech in Birmingham, Alabama in which he condemned lynchings—illegal hangings committed primarily by white supremacists against African Americans in the Deep South. It was the first speech in the South by a...
by Susan | Oct 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 20, 1934 Georgia Tech refused to play its scheduled football game against the University of Michigan if Willis Ward, an African-American on the Michigan team, was allowed to play. The Michigan coach decided not let Ward play; future President Gerald Ford was...
by Susan | Oct 19, 2015 | Monuments
Founded in 1993, the Peace Garden, situated along the Susquehanna River in the two blocks just north of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence, is a collaboration between the city of Harrisburg and the Harrisburg-Hershey chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility....
