by Susan | Jun 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 13, 2005 Eighty U.S. Senators officially apologized for the fact that the Senate never passed an anti-lynching bill. The first bill making lynching a federal crime was introduced in the House of Representatives on April 1, 1918. In the 1920s and 1930s the...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | Monuments
In 2014 a giant pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers appeared on Cape Town’s Sea Point Promenade, pointed towards Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years as a prisoner. The artist, Michael Elion, pitched it as a public art installation;...
by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 12, 1982 Nearly a million people marched in New York City to protest the nuclear buildup between the US and the Soviet Union. The rally was reflective of a grassroots “anti-nuke” movement throughout the US and Europe in favor of ending the nuclear arms...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
June 11, 1910 Jacques Yves Cousteau “People protect what they love.” June 12, 1929 Anne Frank “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” June 13, 1937 Eleanor Holmes Norton “The only...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 11, 1963 Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by...
