by Susan | Aug 30, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 30, 1944 Molly Ivins “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom...
by Susan | Aug 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 30, 1956 From the Texas State History Association: Though the Mansfield school district numbered fewer than 700 whites and sixty blacks in 1956, it segregated black children to an inferior elementary school. Black teenagers were obliged to ride public buses,...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 1756 New Jersey established the first American Indian Reservation, on the edge of the Pine Barrens, near Burlington. Traditional Lenni Lenape lands encompassed the Delaware Valley of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey from the Lehigh River south...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2015 | guest blogger, this day in peace and justice history
Guest Columnist: Cary Clack It’s a coincidence of the calendar but there’s a date which for the past 70 years rings with piercing familiarity in four transformative events in African-American history, which is to say, American history. It begins with a meeting that...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 27, 1928 The Kellogg–Briand Pact (officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) was an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever...
