by Susan | Jun 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 3, 1973 Governor Dolph Briscoe signed into law the Bilingual Education and Training Act. The bill required that all Texas elementary public schools enrolling twenty or more children of limited English ability must provide bilingual instruction. Previously, the...
by Susan | Jun 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
July 3, 1978 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Federal Communications Commission had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin’s “The Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television.” Note: the video of his...
by Susan | Jun 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
June 2, 1783 At the urging of General George Washington, the United States Congress agreed to disband the Revolutionary army following the end of the war. Subject only to the signing of a final peace treaty with Great Britain, all soldiers and non-commissioned...
by Susan | Jun 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
June 1, 1921 America’s worst race riot, begun the day before over the threat of a lynching, culminated in the complete destruction of the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahome. Nearly 10,000 were left homeless. June 1, 1942 German Chancellor...
by Susan | May 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 30, 1937 A thousand striking steel workers, on their way to picket the Republic Steel plant in south Chicago where they were organizing a union, were stopped by the Chicago Police. In what became known as the “Memorial Day Massacre,” police shot and killed ten...
by Susan | May 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 29, 1932 In the depths of the Great Depression, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a group of 1,000 World War I veterans seeking to cash in their veterans’ bonus certificates, arrived in Washington, D.C. Though issued to the veterans in 1924, the certificates were not...
