by Susan | Nov 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 22, 1909 Clara Lemlich, who had been listening for four hours to men speak about the disadvantages of the (mostly female) shirtwaist workers going on a general strike, rose and declared (in Yiddish) that the shirtwaist workers would go on a general strike....
by Susan | Nov 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 21, 1966 The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in Chicago to mobilize women, give women’s rights advocates the power to put pressure on employers and the government, and to promote full equality of the sexes. It hoped to increase the amount of...
by Susan | Nov 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 20, 1962 President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order mandating an end to housing discrimination. The presidential order, which came in the midst of an upsurge in the civil rights movement, banned federally funded housing agencies from denying...
by Susan | Nov 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy in battle there. His carefully...
by Susan | Nov 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union — WCTU — was founded in Ohio to create a “sober and pure world” by abstinence, purity and evangelical Christianity. The WCTU was interested in a number of social reform issues, including labor, the campaigns...
by Susan | Nov 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 17, 1734 Newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested and imprisoned for seditious libel against New York Governor William Cosby. His lawyers, Andrew Hamilton and William Smith, Sr., successfully argued that truth is a defense against charges of libel,...
