by Susan | Jun 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 29, 1940 Prince Bernard of the Netherlands, in exile in London, was well known for wearing a white carnation for national holidays and special occasions. On his birthday, people placed vases filled with carnations in the windows of nearly every house and store....
by Susan | Jun 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 28, 1959 In May of 1959 the French opened five internment camps to detain Algerians suspected of being subversive agents of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN.) After attending a mass in the town of La Cavalerie, sixty people participated in a silent...
by Susan | Jun 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 27, 1963 San Antonio moved toward complete desegregation today after 173 restaurants, 23 motels and 9 hotels quietly opened their doors to...
by Susan | Jun 26, 2017 | Monuments
Rapid City South Dakota (pop. about 70,000) is a city filled with statues. In 2000 it declared itself the “city of presidents” and installed a life-size statue of one on each street corner. Before the presidents started appearing, though, there was...
by Susan | Jun 26, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 26, 1975 In O’Connor v. Donaldson the Supreme Court ruled that a state cannot confine a mentally ill person who is not a danger to the community and who can survive in the community by himself or herself or with the assistance of others. The court wrote: “May the...
