by Susan | May 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 28, 1892 The Sierra Club, America’s oldest grassroots environmental organization, was organized in San Francisco with wilderness explorer John Muir as its first president. The organization’s initial effort was to defeat a proposed reduction in the boundaries...
by Susan | May 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 27, 1963 The record album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, which featured the song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” was...
by Susan | May 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 26, 1940 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled a sit-down strike was not a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act even if it interfered with interstate commerce. The Court said that if the strike were found to be a restraint of trade, then “practically every strike in...
by Susan | May 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 25, 1986 An estimated 7 million Americans participated in Hands Across America, forming a line across the country from Los Angeles to New York to raise public awareness of the issues of hunger and homelessness in the U.S. Participants paid ten dollars to reserve...
by Susan | May 23, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 23, 1838 U.S. General Winfield Scott began the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, implementing a treaty signed by a few members of the tribe relinquishing their lands for a payment of $5 million, under...
by Susan | May 22, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 22, 1703 British author Daniel Defoe was fined, imprisoned and later pilloried for seditious libel for his satire, The Shortest Way With Dissenters, which poked fun, in much the way that The Onion does today, of the persecution of religious sects such as the...
