by Susan | Jun 1, 2015 | Monuments
The Landmark for Peace is a memorial sculpture at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park on the northside of Indianapolis that honors the contributions of the slain leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. On April 4, 1968, Robert Kennedy flew to...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
June 1, 1921 America’s worst race riot, begun the day before over the threat of a lynching, culminated in the complete destruction of the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahome. Nearly 10,000 were left homeless. June 1, 1942 German Chancellor...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2015 | Good to Know!
1 Lailat al Bara’ah – Islam (begins sundown on May 31) 4 Corpus Christi – Catholic Christian 7 All Saints – Orthodox Christian 16 Guru Arjan Dev martyrdom – Sikh 18 Ramadan begins – Islam (begins sundown on 17) 19 New Church Day...
by Susan | May 31, 2015 | peacemaker birthdays
May 31, 1819 Walt Whitman “The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common...
by Susan | May 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 30, 1937 A thousand striking steel workers, on their way to picket the Republic Steel plant in south Chicago where they were organizing a union, were stopped by the Chicago Police. In what became known as the “Memorial Day Massacre,” police shot and killed ten...
