by Susan | Jul 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 8, 1955 The University Texas Board of Regents voted to permit Texas Western University (Now the University of Texas-El Paso) to admit Black students. Thelma Joyce White had be denied admission and brought suit in Federal court, defended by Thurgood Marshall. Ms....
by Susan | Jul 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 7, 1540 The Spanish, led by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, attacked Hawikuh (Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico) believing it to be one of the Seven Cities of Gold. It was the first skirmish between Indigenous Americans and Europeans in western US. In 1628 the Mission La...
by Susan | Jul 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 6, 1911 Joe Hill’s song “The Preacher & the Slave” first appeared in the IWW (Wobbly) Little Red Song Book. You will eat by & by, / In that glorious land above the sky. / Work & pray, / Live on hay, / You’ll get Pie in the...
by Susan | Jul 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 5, 1855 The Governor of Texas authorized James Hughes Callahan to cross the Rio Grande, ostensibly to retaliate for Apache raids but generally agreed upon by historians to be an expedition to capture runaway slaves who had escaped across the border to Nueva León...
by Susan | Jul 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 4, 1971 Three kayaks, three canoes and a rubber raft, crewed by Philadelphia Quakers, blocked the path of a Pakistani freighter steaming in to load arms in the port of Baltimore. The next day the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives voted...
by Susan | Jul 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 3, 1913 On the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, thousands of Civil War veterans descended on the town. A recreation of Pickett’s Charge was reenacted by 120 (Confederate) veterans of Pickett’s Division and 180 (Union) veterans from the Philadelphia...
