by Susan | Mar 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 29, 1925 Black leaders in Charleston, West Virginia, protested the showing of D. W. Griffith’s movie, Birth of a Nation, scheduled to open at the Rialto Theatre on April 1, claiming it violated a 1919 state law prohibiting any entertainment which demeaned...
by Susan | Mar 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 28, 1942 Minoru Yasui, a U.S. born lawyer, walked into a Portland, Oregon police station at 11:20 pm, presenting himself for arrest to test the constitutionality of WWII-era curfew orders targeted at Japanese-Americans. His case, along with those of fellow...
by Susan | Mar 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 27, 1912 In Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshina cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in...
by Susan | Mar 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 26, 1948 The American GI Forum was established in Corpus Christi by Dr. Hector P. Garcia to address the concerns of Mexican-American veterans, who were segregated from other veterans groups. Initially formed to request services for World War II veterans of...
by Susan | Mar 25, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 25, 1911 Within 18 minutes, 147 people, mostly Italian & Jewish immigrant women and girls working in sweatshop conditions, died when the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory, occupying the top floors of a ten-story building on New York’s Lower East Side, was...
by Susan | Mar 24, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 24, 1949President Harry S Truman signed a U.S. resolution authorizing $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948, half of the United Nations aid package. At the signing,...
