by Susan | Aug 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 23, 1989 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — the three nations living by the Baltic Sea — surprised the world by taking hold of each other’s hands and jointly demanding the re-establishment of the independence of the Baltic States, which was bargained away...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1964 Fannie Lou Hamer, leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), testified in front of the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention. She was challenging the all-white delegation that the segregated regular Mississippi...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1968 The Czechoslovakian people spontaneously, nonviolently and ultimately unsuccessfully resisted invasion of their country of 14 million by hundreds of thousands of troops and 5,000+ tanks from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries. The...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 20, 1619 The first Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, as servants.
by Susan | Aug 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1749 According to the Texas State History Association, on this day four Apache chiefs, accompanied by many followers, buried a hatchet, along with other instruments of war, in a peace Ceremony in San Antonio. TSHA states that the ceremony indicated the...
