by Susan | May 15, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 15, 1870 Julia Ward Howe, suffragist, abolitionist and author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” proposed Mother’s Day as a peace holiday. She had seen firsthand some of the worst effects of war during the American Civil War—the death and disease which...
by Susan | May 14, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 14, 1970 Two African-American students were shot to death and 30 others wounded by local police and state troopers and national guardsmen at primarily black Jackson State University in Mississippi. The two were watching demonstrators protesting the invasion of...
by Susan | May 13, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 13, 1888 Brazil, which had imported more African enslaved people than any other country (nearly 40% of the 11 million Africans shipped to the western hemisphere), abolished...
by Susan | May 12, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 12, 1963 Bob Dylan walked out of TV dress rehearsals for “The Ed Sullivan Show” when CBS censors tell him he could not perform his “Talking John Birch Society...
by Susan | May 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 11, 1973 All charges were dismissed against Daniel Ellsberg who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, sparked a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making about the...
by Susan | May 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
May 8, 1980 The World Health Organization “Declares solemnly that the world and its peoples have won freedom from smallpox, which was a most devastating disease sweeping in epidemic form through many countries since earliest time, leaving death, blindness and...
