by Susan | Aug 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 16, 1971 A memo from White House Counsel John Dean set forth his ideas about using federal agencies, such as the IRS, to punish people the Nixon administration believed were their enemies. The list was exposed in the Watergate hearings two years later. JOHN...
by Susan | Aug 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 14, 1948 The States’ Rights Party was formed by southern Democrats (usually called Dixiecrats) who walked out of the Democratic Party Convention in July because of that party’s strong civil rights plank. South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond became the States’...
by Susan | Aug 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 13, 1906 The Brownsville Raid, an alleged rampage by soldiers from the all-black Twenty-fifth United States Infantry, resulted in the largest summary dismissals in the history of the United States Army. The battalion arrived at Brownsville, then a community of...
by Susan | Aug 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 11, 1978 American Indian Religious Freedom Act was passed to protect and preserve the traditional religious rights and cultural practices of American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, and Native Hawaiians. These rights include, but are not limited to, access to sacred...
by Susan | Aug 10, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 10, 1883 Adrian “Cap” Anson refused to field his visiting Chicago White Stockings team in an exhibition baseball game if the Toledo Mud Hens included star catcher Moses Fleetwood Walker in their lineup. Anson, who grew up in slave-holding Iowa, said he wouldn’t...
by Susan | Aug 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
August 8, 1974 President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office, the first U.S. president ever to do so. The House Judiciary Committee had, with bipartisan support, voted for three articles of impeachment: obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of...
