by Susan | Jun 10, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 10, 1968 Florence Flast and others sued Wilber Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, because HEW was spending funds on religious schools in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The District Court had ruled that Flast lacked...
by Susan | Jun 9, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 9, 1969 In the case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, Clarence Brandenburg was an Ohio Ku Klux Klan member convicted of violating the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism law for making extreme racist statements against African-Americans and Jews. The Supreme Court overturned his...
by Susan | Jun 8, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 8, 1975 In response to revelations that the CIA had undertaken secret plots to assassinate foreign leaders, Attorney General Edward H. Levi stated that presidents do not have the authority to order the assassination of foreign leaders. A year later, on February...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 7, 1893 Mohandas K. Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. It was his first act of civil...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 6, 1936 The Senate approved the La Follette Committee, which investigated violations of the civil liberties of workers and labor unions by employers. The official name of the committee was the Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of...
