by Susan | Oct 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 23, 1956 A group of engineering students in the Hungarian capital of Budapest decided to hold a demonstration not about the situation in Hungary, but about Poland, where a revolt in the Polish city of Poznan had been crushed by the Soviet army in June. Word...
by Susan | Oct 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 22, 1975 Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, was given a “general” discharge by the air force after publicly declaring his homosexuality on the cover to Time Magazine. In 1979, after winning a much-publicized case...
by Susan | Oct 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 21, 1921 President Warren G. Harding delivered a speech in Birmingham, Alabama in which he condemned lynchings—illegal hangings committed primarily by white supremacists against African Americans in the Deep South. It was the first speech in the South by a...
by Susan | Oct 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 20, 1934 Georgia Tech refused to play its scheduled football game against the University of Michigan if Willis Ward, an African-American on the Michigan team, was allowed to play. The Michigan coach decided not let Ward play; future President Gerald Ford was...
by Susan | Oct 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 19, 1960 Martin Luther King, Jr., and 36 others were jailed after being arrested during a sit-in at the at the Magnolia Room at Rich’s Department Store. where they requested service and were refused on account of their race. Charges were dropped for the sit-in...
by Susan | Oct 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 18, 1767 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired...
