by Susan | Jul 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 24, 1983 Canadians and Americans spanned the international border at Thousand Islands Bridge, linking New York and Ontario, to protest nuclear weapons and border harassment of peace...
by Susan | Jul 23, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 23, 1846 Author Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay the poll tax as a protest against the Mexican war, which in turn led to his writing “Civil Disobedience.” This essay became a source of inspiration for Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and...
by Susan | Jul 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 22, 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed to add five new justices to the Supreme Court, because the Court was overturning many of his programs; the Senate turned down his...
by Susan | Jul 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 21, 1896 The National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was established in Washington, D.C. Its two leading members were Josephine Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell. Founders also included some of the most renowned African-American women educators, community...
by Susan | Jul 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 20, 1971 The first labor contract in the history of the federal government was signed by postal worker unions and the newly re-organized U.S. Postal Service. This contract was made possible by the postal strike of March 1970, in which 200,000 postal workers...
by Susan | Jul 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
July 19, 1950 Pope Pius XII published the encyclical Summi maeroris, “With the Deepest Sorrow.” He wrote: “Let all of them remember what war brings in its wake, as we know only too well from experience – nothing but ruin, death and every sort...
