by Susan | Jan 31, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 31, 1865 The U.S. House of Representatives passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in America. The amendment read, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude…shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to...
by Susan | Jan 30, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 30, 1948 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. January 30, 1956 As Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the pulpit, leading a mass meeting during the...
by Susan | Jan 29, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
January 29, 1996 Three Ploughshares activists, Lotta Kronlid, Andrea Needham and Joanna Wilson, caused millions in damage and were arrested in Warton, Lancashire, England, for disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in...
by Susan | Jan 28, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 28, 1985 “We Are the World,” the song and charity single written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, was recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it raised more than $50 million for African Famine...
by Susan | Jan 27, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 27, 1945 The Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated the German Nazis’ largest concentration camps: the Auschwitz main camp, the Birkenau death camp and the Monowitz labor camp in southwestern...
by Susan | Jan 26, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 26, 1788 The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, approximately 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain. The accepted wisdom of the ruling classes in 18th century England was that...
