by Susan | Sep 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 16, 1837 William Whipper, a Negro from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, published “An Address on Non-Resistance to Offensive Aggression” in the The Colored American, outlining his commitment to a strictly non-violent response to the evils of...
by Susan | Sep 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 15, 1963 During Sunday School, 15 sticks of dynamite blew apart the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four children in the basement changing room and injuring 23 others. A week before the bombing Governor George C. Wallace had...
by Susan | Sep 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 14, 1872 A joint arbitration commission ordered Great Britain to pay the US $15.5 million as compensation for damages during the Civil War. The peaceful resolution of these claims seven years after the war ended set an important precedent for solving serious...
by Susan | Sep 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 13, 1982 The European Parliament voted for phasing out promotion and advertising of war toys.
by Susan | Sep 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 12, 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Stephen Bantu Biko died in police custody.
by Susan | Sep 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
September 11, 1906 Mohandas Gandhi, then a young Indian lawyer, began a nonviolent resistance campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa, demanding rights and respect for those of Asian descent. It was the birth of his concept of political progress through nonviolent...
