by Susan | Jun 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 11, 1963 Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by...
by Susan | Jun 10, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 10, 1975 The Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, informally known as the Rockefeller Commission, released its report detailing a secret & criminal CIA-sponsored domestic program, CHAOS, which, beginning under Lyndon Johnson in 1967,...
by Susan | Jun 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 7, 1892 Homer Plessy, a Creole of European and African descent, was arrested and jailed for sitting in a Louisiana railroad car designated for white people only. Plessy had violated an 1890 state law, the Louisiana Separate Car Act, that called for racially...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 6, 1949 George Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, was published. It described a world in which totalitarian government controls the behavior of all, including the way one thinks, summed up in the government’s slogans: War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery,...
by Susan | Jun 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 5, 1950 The U.S. Supreme Court decision Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629, integrated colleges and universities. The case involved a black man, Heman Marion Sweatt, who was refused admission to the School of Law of the University of Texas on the grounds that the...
by Susan | Jun 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 4, 1939 During what became known as the “Voyage of the Damned,” the SS St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany to the U.S., was turned away from the Florida coast. The ship, also denied permission to dock in Cuba, eventually...
