by Susan | Aug 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 22, 1964 Fannie Lou Hamer, leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), testified in front of the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention. She was challenging the all-white delegation that the segregated regular Mississippi...
by Susan | Aug 21, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 21, 1968 The Czechoslovakian people spontaneously, nonviolently and ultimately unsuccessfully resisted invasion of their country of 14 million by hundreds of thousands of troops and 5,000+ tanks from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries. The...
by Susan | Aug 20, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 20, 1619 The first Africans were brought to Jamestown, Virginia, as servants.
by Susan | Aug 19, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 19, 1749 According to the Texas State History Association, on this day four Apache chiefs, accompanied by many followers, buried a hatchet, along with other instruments of war, in a peace Ceremony in San Antonio. TSHA states that the ceremony indicated the...
by Susan | Aug 18, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 18, 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment granting women the right to vote was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment. Anti-women’s suffrage forces attempted to reverse the state’s ratification; the governor finally signed the certificate...
by Susan | Aug 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 17, 1962 East German border guards shot & killed Peter Fechter, an 18 year old bricklayer, as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into the western sector. Fechter was shot in the pelvis in plain view of hundreds of witnesses. He fell back into the...
