by Susan | Aug 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 18, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. Anti-women’s suffrage forces attempted to reverse the state’s ratification; the governor finally signed the certificate...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2015 | Monuments
Today is the anniversary of the 1962 murder of East German bricklayer Peter Fechter, who was shot crossing the Berlin Wall. A cross was quickly placed on the western side near the spot where Fechter was shot and slowly bled to death. At the invitation of Willy Brandt,...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 17, 1962 East German border guards shot & killed Peter Fechter, an 18 year old bricklayer, as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector. Fechter was shot in the pelvis in plain view of hundreds of witnesses. He fell back into the...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 16, 1971 A memo from White House Counsel John Dean set forth his ideas about using federal agencies, such as the IRS, to punish people the Nixon administration believed were their enemies. The list was exposed in the Watergate hearings two years later. JOHN...
by Susan | Aug 16, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
August 16, 1911 EF Schumacher “Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.” August 18, 1900 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit “The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.” August 20, 1886 Paul Tillich...
