by Susan | Sep 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 21, 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice. September 21, 1981 International Day of Peace was established by United Nations General Assembly resolution 36/37 as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both...
by Susan | Sep 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 20, 1932 Rabindranath Tagore, recipient of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature, began a campaign of resistance to practice of “untouchability” in then-British India. He penned Dalit heroes for his poems and his dramas, and he...
by Susan | Sep 20, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
September 20, 1878 Upton Sinclair “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” September 21, 1866 HG Wells “Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in...
by Susan | Sep 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 19, 1796 George Washington delivered his farewell address: Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it –...
by Susan | Sep 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 18, 1850 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves who escaped into another state, and levying harsh penalties on those who would interfere with the apprehension of runaway slaves. As part of the Compromise of 1850, it...
