by Susan | Apr 2, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
April 2, 1840 Emile Zola “If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.” April 5, 1856 Booker T. Washington “There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” April 7, 1770...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 2, 1870 Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838-1927) became the first woman to run for president of the United States when she announced her candidacy for the 1872 election, but she spent Election Day in jail for sending obscene literature through the mail. Articulate...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
April 1, 1932 In the midst of the Great Depression, 500 school children, most with haggard faces & in tattered clothes, paraded through Chicago’s downtown section to the Board of Education offices to demand that the school system provide them with...
by Susan | Mar 31, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 31, 2016 The Philadelphia City Council apologized fFor an incident in 1947 when, Jackie Robinson faced some of the most abhorrent racism of his baseball career during a game against the Phillies, when the team’s manager led the players in hurling taunts...
by Susan | Mar 30, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 30, 1919 Gandhi called for a day of “hartal,” when all business was to be suspended and people were to fast and pray as a protest against the Rowlatt Bills, which indefinitely extended the emergency measures of preventive indefinite detention,...
