by Susan | Nov 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 4, 1956 In response to protests that began in October, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. The city endured days of heavy shelling and street battles, and Hungarians started to flee at the rate of thousands a day to neighboring Austria. By the time the borders...
by Susan | Nov 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 3, 1883 The U.S. Supreme Court, in its decision Ex Parte Crow Dog, declared Native Americans were not subject to U.S. law: “It tries them, not by their peers, nor by the customs of their people, nor the law of their land, but by superiors of a different...
by Susan | Nov 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 2, 1966 A Federal Court District Judge ruled that the Girard College Board of Trustees could not deny admission to seven African American applicants solely on the basis of race. The college was founded in 1848 by Philadelphia merchant and banker Stephen...
by Susan | Nov 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
November 1, 1963 The “Freedom Vote” held on this day was a mock election in Mississippi involving African American who had been denied the right to register to vote, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to dramatize the fact that only 7...
by Susan | Oct 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 31, 1517 Priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. The term “Protestant” (meaning...
by Susan | Oct 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 30, 1918 Roger Baldwin, future director of the ACLU, was convicted of refusing to cooperate with the draft and sentenced to prison. His statement to the judge at the time of his sentencing was published as “The Individual and the State,” widely circulated:...
