by Susan | Oct 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 17, 1968 Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos were forced to return their awards because they raised their fists in a black-power salute during the medal ceremony. When they got to the podium for the medal ceremony, Smith and...
by Susan | Oct 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 16, 1864 Abraham Lincoln, then a Congressional hopeful, delivered a speech regarding the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which Congress had passed five months earlier. In his speech, the future president denounced the the act and outlined his views on slavery, which he...
by Susan | Oct 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 15, 1969 The Peace Moratorium held on this day is believed to have been the largest demonstration in US history with an estimated two million people involved. In towns and cities throughout the US, students, working men and women, school children, the young...
by Susan | Oct 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 14, 1927 Leaders of Irish-American groups in New York City on this day demanded a city ordinance that would empower officials to revoke the license of any film that “maligns, ridicules, or gives offense to any racial or religious group.” They referred...
by Susan | Oct 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 13, 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson had issued Executive Order 11246, establishing affirmative action in employment for all federal agencies and contractors on September 24, 1965. Leaders of the women’s rights movement protested Johnson’s omission of women...
by Susan | Oct 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
October 12, 1958 A Reform Jewish Temple, Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, on Peachtree Street in Atlanta (the city’s oldest) was firebombed with fifty sticks of dynamite in retaliation for Jewish support of local black civil rights activists. No one was...
