by Susan | Aug 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 1920 The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, officially became part of the U.S. Constitution: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” This...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 1985 Samantha Smith died in an airplane crash in Maine. In 1982, the 11-year-old American schoolgirl had written a letter to Soviet Russia’s leader Yuri Andropov asking, “Why do you want to conquer the whole world, or at least our...
by Susan | Aug 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 24, 1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party (Yippies) temporarily disrupted trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing 300 dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease for six minutes as brokers scrambled to grab...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
August 23, 1927 Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were electrocuted inside a prison at Charlestown, Massachusetts. They had been convicted of a shoe factory payroll robbery during which the paymaster and a guard had been killed. Following their...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1971 The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested twenty people in Camden, New Jersey, and five in Buffalo, New York, for conspiracy to steal and destroy draft records. Eventually known as the Camden 28, most were Roman Catholic activists, including four...
