by Susan | Feb 26, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 26, 1977 Members and supporters of the Texas Farm Workers Union began a 420-mile march from San Juan (in The Valley) to Austin to lobby for passage of a new state law granting fieldworkers the right to vote on union...
by Susan | Feb 25, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 25, 1957 The US Supreme Court voided Michigan law banning sale of books that might corrupt youth. In Butler v. Michigan Justice Frankfurter wrote: “The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown...
by Susan | Feb 24, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 24, 1969 One hundred Texas Rangers were sent to Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, the oldest Black college west of the Mississippi, in response to nonviolent student demonstrations concerning substandard dorm conditions. The Rangers swept the dorms for...
by Susan | Feb 23, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 23, 1954 The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh. Salk campaigned for mandatory vaccination, claiming that public health should be considered a “moral commitment.” His sole focus had been to...
by Susan | Feb 22, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 22, 1974 Organic farmer Sam Lovejoy cut down the weather tower for proposed nuclear plant in Montague, Massachusetts, just 50 miles upwind from Walden Pond. It was the first act of civil disobedience against nuclear power in...
by Susan | Feb 21, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
February 21, 1958 The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, was designed and completed by Gerald...
