by Susan | Aug 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 29, 1756 New Jersey established the first American Indian Reservation, on the edge of the Pine Barrens, near Burlington. Traditional Lenni Lenape lands encompassed the Delaware Valley of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey from the Lehigh River south...
by Susan | Aug 28, 2015 | guest blogger, this day in peace and justice history
Guest Columnist: Cary Clack It’s a coincidence of the calendar but there’s a date which for the past 70 years rings with piercing familiarity in four transformative events in African-American history, which is to say, American history. It begins with a meeting that...
by Susan | Aug 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 27, 1928 The Kellogg–Briand Pact (officially the General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy) was an international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever...
by Susan | Aug 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 26, 1789 The French National Assembly agreed to a document known as the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,” a set of principles for gauging the legitimacy of any governing system. It included: Men are born and remain free and equal in rights; Those...
by Susan | Aug 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 25, 1950 The University of California Regents voted to fire 31 faculty members who refused to sign a Loyalty Oath. The state Supreme Court declared the University of California loyalty oath unconstitutional on October 17, 1952. The oath stated, in part,...
by Susan | Aug 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 23, 1989 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — the three nations living by the Baltic Sea — surprised the world by taking hold of each other’s hands and jointly demanding the re-establishment of the independence of the Baltic States, which was bargained away...
