by Susan | Mar 13, 2017 | Monuments
On June 15, 1920, Black circus workers Elmer Jackson, Elias Clayton, and Issac McGhie, falsely accused of rape, were hanged in Duluth while a white mob of 10,000 looked on. The lynchings made headlines throughout the whole country. The Chicago Evening Post wrote,...
by Susan | Mar 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 12, 2012 In Guatemala Pedro Pimentel Rios, a former member of the elite Kaibiles Corp team of the Guatemalan military, was sentenced to 6,060 years in prison for his role in the killings of 201 people in the December, 1982 El Mozote massacre. Rios was extradited...
by Susan | Mar 12, 2017 | peacemaker birthdays
March 15, 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg “If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.” March 16 1839 Sully Prudhomme “The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise up.” March 17,...
by Susan | Mar 12, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 12, 1943 Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” premiered in Cincinnati Asked by conductor Eugene Goossens to compose a fanfare celebrating US entry into WWII, he instead riffed off a quote by vice president Henry A. Wallace who proclaimed the...
by Susan | Mar 11, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
March 11, 1968 Cesar Chavez ended a 23-day fast for U.S. farm workers in a Delano, California, public park with 4000 supporters at his side, including Senator Robert Kennedy (D-New York). Cesar Chavez led the effort to organize farm workers into a union for better...
