by Susan | Mar 11, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 11, 2011 More than 85,000 Wisconsin citizens rallied outside the Capitol in Madison to welcome the return to the state of fourteen Democratic state senators. Known as the Wisconsin 14, they had left the state to deny the senate a quorum, thus delaying passage of...
by Susan | Mar 10, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 10, 1959 In Lhasa, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded Norbulinka Palace, preventing the Dalai Lama from accepting an invitation to tea and a cultural event issued by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, which was suspected to be a ruse to kidnap the Dalai Lama...
by Susan | Mar 9, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 9, 1841 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Africans who seized control of the Cuban ship Amistad had been illegally forced into slavery, and thus were free under American law. Despite an international ban on the importation of African slaves, Cuba continued...
by Susan | Mar 8, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 8, 1908 Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (primarily women) demonstrated and began a strike for higher wages, a shorter workday and an end to child labor.This event became the basis for International Women’s Day celebrated all over the...
by Susan | Mar 7, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 7, 1965 525 civil rights advocates began a 54-mile march on a Sunday morning from Selma, Alabama, to the capital of Montgomery, to promote voting rights for blacks. Just after crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, the marchers were...
by Susan | Mar 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
March 6, 1857 The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sandford) which declared that an escaped slave, Scott, could not sue for his freedom in federal court because he was not a citizen. Those of African descent could never be...
