by Susan | Apr 4, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 4, 1967 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech entitled “Beyond Vietnam” in front of 3,000 people at Riverside Church in New York City. In it, he says that there is a common link forming between the civil rights and peace movements....
by Susan | Apr 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 3, 1968 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech in Memphis, Tennessee. King was there to support sanitation workers striking to protest low wages and poor working...
by Susan | Apr 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 2, 1970 Massachusetts enacted a law which stipulated that except for an emergency, no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces shall be required to serve abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 1, 1621 In present-day Massachusetts, the leaders of the Plymouth colonists, acting on behalf of King James I, made a defensive alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags. The agreement, in which both parties promised to not “doe hurt” to one...
by Susan | Mar 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 31, 1776 Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, urging him and the other members of the Continental Congress not to forget about the nation’s women when fighting for America’s independence from Great Britain. The future First Lady wrote,...
by Susan | Mar 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 30, 1855 In the Kansas territory’s first election, some 5,000 “Border Ruffians” invaded the territory from western Missouri and forced the election of a pro-slavery legislature. During the next four years, raids, skirmishes, and massacres...
