by Susan | Oct 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 1, 1964 The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California – Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2015 | Good to Know!
October 4 – Saint Francis Day – Christian October 5 – Shemini Atzeret – Jewish (begins sundown on 4th) October 6 – Simchat Torah – Jewish (begins sundown on 5th) October 13-21 – Navaratri – Hindu October 14 –...
by Susan | Sep 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 30, 1962 Hundreds of Ku Klux Klan members, white students and others, tried to keep a black student, James Meredith, 29, from attending classes at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They were supported by the governor, Ross Barnett, who had explicitly...
by Susan | Sep 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 29, 1943 Six conscientious objectors, in prison for refusing to cooperate with the draft during WW II, began a hunger strike to protest the censorship of mail and reading material in prison. The strike ended in December 1943. James V. Bennett, head of the...
by Susan | Sep 28, 2015 | Monuments
The James Meredith monument was dedicated in 2006 a symbol of racial reconciliation for a state that continues to struggle with how to move forward from a violently racist past. It commemorates the 1962 enrollment of James Meredith at Ol’ Miss, forced by Federal...
