by Susan | Mar 29, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 29, 1961 The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. Unaddressed by the Twenty-third Amendment were the parallel issues of congressional representation and...
by Susan | Mar 28, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 28, 2009 Tibetans rallied against the China’s new holiday, Serfs Liberation Day, on the 50th anniversary of Beijing’s crushing of a Tibetan uprising that led to the Dalai Lama’s exile. The Chinese claim that it is honoring what it calls the liberation of slaves...
by Susan | Mar 27, 2017 | Monuments
This trail consists of eleven markers along Fourth Street in downtown Louisville, the city’s primary corridor of restaurants, department stores and theaters. Through the 1950s, most white-owned establishments downtown excluded African Americans or treated them...
by Susan | Mar 27, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 27, 1969 The first Chicano Youth Liberation Conference was held by the Crusade for Justice; the poet Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia, known as Alurista, presented his poem on the myth of Aztlán, which captured the imagination of the conference. In this video he...
by Susan | Mar 26, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
March 28, 1879 Terence MacSwiney “It is not those who can inflict the most but those who can endure the most who will conquer.” March 31, 1924 Leo Buscaglia “The opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.” March 31,...
