by Susan | Aug 18, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 18, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. Anti-women’s suffrage forces attempted to reverse the state’s ratification; the governor finally signed the certificate...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 17, 1870 Esther Morris was named a justice of the peace in South Pass City, Wyoming, the first woman to hold public office in the US and the first woman in the world to have a judicial appointment....
by Susan | Aug 16, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 16, 2010 US-based Rapaport Diamond Trading Network, one of the world’s largest diamond trading networks, said it will expel members who knowingly trade Zimbabwean stones tainted by allegations of killings and human rights...
by Susan | Aug 15, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 15, 1876 Congress passed a law to remove the Lakota Sioux and their allies from the Black Hills country of South Dakota after gold was found there. Often referred to as the “starve or sell” bill, it provided that no further appropriations would be made for 1868...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 14, 2013 U.S. runner Nick Symmonds became “the first international athlete to denounce Russia’s law against “gay propaganda” on the country’s soil.” He had just won the silver medal in the 800 m race in Moscow, and dedicated...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
August 13, 1961 The city of Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city’s eastern (Soviet Union-controlled) and western (American-, British- and French-controlled) sectors in order to halt the flight of economic and political refugees to...
