by Susan | Oct 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 15, 1969 The Peace Moratorium held on this day is believed to have been the largest demonstration in US history with an estimated two million people involved. In towns and cities throughout the US, students, working men and women, school children, the young...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 14, 1927 Leaders of Irish-American groups in New York City on this day demanded a city ordinance that would empower officials to revoke the license of any film that “maligns, ridicules, or gives offense to any racial or religious group.” They referred...
by Susan | Oct 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 13, 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson had issued Executive Order 11246, establishing affirmative action in employment for all federal agencies and contractors on September 24, 1965. Leaders of the women’s rights movement protested Johnson’s omission of women...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2015 | Monuments
Palomas de la Paz is known by the locals as “La Cola de la Ballena,” because, although it represents two dove in profile, also bears the shape of a whale’s tale, in honor of the many species of whale that populate the Sea of Cortez, as well as the...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 12, 1958 A Reform Jewish Temple, Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, on Peachtree Street in Atlanta (the city’s oldest) was firebombed with fifty sticks of dynamite in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists. No one was...
