by Susan | Mar 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
March 3, 1913 More than 8,000 women marched for women’s suffrage in Washington DC. This was the march in which the young Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was arrested and jailed. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an outspoken, African American...
by Susan | Mar 2, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 2, 1789 Pennsylvania ended its prohibition on theatrical performances. Pennsylvania Quakers lumped the theater in with bearbaiting and bullbaiting, cock fighting, equestrian performances and horse racing and tight-rope dancing, which they felt encouraged...
by Susan | Mar 1, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
March 1, 1919 The March 1st Movement began, one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the occupation of Korea by Japan. Inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s “Fourteen Points” speech at the Paris Peace Conference in January, which outlined the right...
by Susan | Feb 29, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 29, 1960 Alabama Governor John Patterson warned Alabama State students at their state capitol protest that “someone is likely to get killed” if demonstrations in Montgomery continued. The students ignored him, showing up a thousand strong the next...
by Susan | Feb 28, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
February 28, 1823 US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, in the case of Johnson v. M’Intosh, first applied the Doctrine of Discovery and the Law of Nations in the United States. Marshall traced the outlines of the “discovery doctrine”—that a...
by Susan | Feb 27, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 27, 1943 The Rosenstrasse protest began, a nonviolent protest in “Rose street” in Berlin carried out by the non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested and locked up in a provisional collecting center rather than being...
