by Susan | Mar 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 21, 2014 Turkey blocked access to Twitter after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “rip out the roots” of the social network where links have proliferated to recordings that appear to incriminate him and other top officials in...
by Susan | Mar 20, 2017 | Monuments
Designed by Larry Kirkland of Washington, D.C., the garden features a brick path through a garden of seasonal plants, flowers and ginkgo trees. Eleven black African granite columns are inscribed with quotes from slaves and students, presidents and preachers, all...
by Susan | Mar 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 20, 1924 The Virginia Legislature passed two closely related eugenics laws: SB 219, entitled “The Racial Integrity Act” and SB 281, “An ACT to provide for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases”,...
by Susan | Mar 19, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
March 19, 1721 Tobias Smollett “Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.” March 25, 1914 Norman Borlaug “You can’t build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.” March 25, 1934 Gloria Steinem “If you say, I’m...
by Susan | Mar 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 19, 2006 In Seville, Spain, Muslim and Jewish leaders met in a rare face-to-face forum and appealed to their faithful not to view each other as enemies and keep religion from being hijacked by extremists. The 4-day meeting, called the Second World Congress of...
