by Susan | Jun 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 18, 1987 The Southern Baptist Convention, during its annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, voted in favor of a boycott against the Walt Disney Company for what the Convention called “anti-Christian and anti-family” productions in its various media outlets,...
by Susan | Jun 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 17, 1838 The Cherokee Nation began the 1,200-mile forced march later known as the Trail of Tears. Their removal from ancestral land in the southeast U.S. had been ordered by President Andrew Jackson as the result of a treaty signed by a small minority of the...
by Susan | Jun 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 16, 1976 A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa turned into days of rioting when police open fire on the...
by Susan | Jun 15, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 15, 1982 In Plyler v. Doe, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a Texas statute denying funding for education to unauthorized immigrant children and simultaneously struck down a municipal school district’s (Tyler) attempt to charge...
by Susan | Jun 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 14, 1968 Dr. Benjamin Spock and three co-defendants were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct the draft during the Vietnam War. Author of Baby and Child Care (1946), Dr. Spock was an opponent of nuclear weapons testing and a critic of the Vietnam War. Also...
