by Susan | Jan 15, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 15, 1944 Igor Stravinsky orchestrated ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ for the Boston Symphony, featuring a dominant 7th chord that gives it a mournful feel. Someone alerted the Boston police, who arrived at Symphony Hall and accused him of...
by Susan | Jan 14, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 14, 1986 In an 8-1 Decision, the Supreme Court ruled in Bowen v. Roy that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment “simply cannot be understood to require the Government to conduct its own internal affairs in ways that comport with the religious beliefs...
by Susan | Jan 13, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 13, 1898 French writer Emile Zola’s newspaper editorial, “J’accuse,” was printed. The letter exposed a military cover-up regarding Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain, who had been accused of espionage in 1894 and sentenced in a secret military...
by Susan | Jan 12, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 12, 1954 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that the U.S. would go beyond of President Harry Truman’s doctrine of “containing Communism” for a new policy: “. . . there is no local defense which alone will contain the mighty landpower of the...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 11, 1944 In his 1944 State of the Union address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt called for a Second Bill of Rights, guaranteeing a broad range of social and economic rights. FDR did not push the issue and the idea quickly vanished. The President: “We have...
by Susan | Jan 10, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
January 10, 1983 Months of acrimonious controversy came to a boil when construction crews arrived in Point Pleasant, PA to begin work on a massive water supply project. Opponents charged that the pump would dry up the Delaware river, killing fish in the stream and...
