by Susan | May 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
May 1, 1948 Senator Glen Hearst Taylor (D-Idaho) was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked for “Negroes” rather than using the “whites only” door, and convicted of disorderly conduct. Taylor was the...
by Susan | Apr 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 30, 1967 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a sermon entitled, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam” at Riverside Church in New York...
by Susan | Apr 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 29, 1968 This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius: The musical Hair premiered on Broadway. Harmony and understanding, Sympathy and trust abounding, No more falsehoods or derisions, Golden living dreams of visions, Mystic crystal revelation, And the...
by Susan | Apr 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 28, 1915 The International Congress of Women convened at The Hague, Netherlands, with more than 1,200 delegates from 12 countries, all dedicated to the cause of peace and an end to World War I. Often referred to as the Women’s Peace Congress, the meeting...
by Susan | Apr 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 27, 1987 The Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia, was blockaded by people protesting U.S. policies in Central America and Southern Africa. 700 were...
by Susan | Apr 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 26, 1937 During the Spanish Civil War, the German military tested its powerful new air force—the Luftwaffe—on the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain. The German aircraft began their attack at 4:30 p.m., the busiest hour of the market day. For three...
