by Susan | Apr 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 14, 1930 Police arrested more 100 Chicano farm workers for their union activities in Imperial Valley, California. Eight were convicted of so-called “criminal syndicalism.” Syndicalism is a system of economic organization in which industries are owned...
by Susan | Apr 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 13, 1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launched the mind-control program Project MKUltra, an illegal program of experiments on human subjects, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the...
by Susan | Apr 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 12, 1971 90-year-old Jeanette Rankin, the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, lead 8,000 in protest of the Vietnam War in the Women’s peace march on the...
by Susan | Apr 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 11, 1996 The Treaty of Pelindaba was signed in Cairo, making Africa a nuclear-free continent and in theory making the entire southern hemisphere a nuclear-free...
by Susan | Apr 10, 2017 | Monuments
Once known as West Park, Kelly Ingram sits on a 4-acre lot in the Birmingham Civil Rights District, just across the street from both the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. The Park oftentimes served as a gathering place for...
