by Susan | May 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 7, 1984 American veterans of the Vietnam War reached a $180-million out-of-court settlement with seven chemical companies in a class-action suit relating to use of the herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam. The veterans charged they had suffered injury and illness...
by Susan | May 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 6, 1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed, the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States, making it unlawful for Chinese laborers to enter the US for the next 10 years & denying naturalized citizenship to the Chinese already...
by Susan | May 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 5, 1925 Biology teacher John T. Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution in a Dayton, Tennessee, high school in violation of state law. Working in a public school, he was prohibited by statute “to teach any theory that denies the story of the...
by Susan | May 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 4, 1970 Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others, one permanently disabled. The previous day, President Nixon had announced a widening of the Vietnam War with bombing in...
by Susan | May 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 3, 1808 Civilians were executed by Napoleonic forces putting down a rebellion by the citizens of Madrid, Spain on Principe Pio Hill. The event was memorialized in the painting by Francisco de Goya, “The Third of May 1808: The Execution of the Defenders of Madrid.”...
by Susan | May 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 2, 1967 An armed Black Panther contingent marched into the California State Assembly in Sacramento to protest a bill (the Mulford Act) that would ban the open carrying of unconcealed weapons, which was legal there at the time. The first video is from 1967; the...
