by Susan | Jan 6, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 6, 1941 “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God...
by Susan | Jan 5, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 5, 1527 Felix Manz, the first Anabaptist martyr, was sentenced to death and drowned in Zurich, Switzerland, for preaching against infant...
by Susan | Jan 3, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 3, 1521 Pope Leo X issued the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicated Martin Luther, the chief catalyst of Protestantism, from the Catholic Church. January 3, 1834 Escalating the tensions that would lead to rebellion and war, the Mexican...
by Susan | Jan 2, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 2, 1492 The kingdom of Granada fell to the Christian forces of King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I, and the Moors lost their last foothold in Spain. In 1502 the Spanish crown ordered all Muslims forcibly converted to Christianity. The next century saw a...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
January 1, 1831 William Lloyd Garrison first published The Liberator (four hundred copies printed in the middle of the night using borrowed type), which became the leading abolitionist paper in the United States. He labeled slave-holding a crime and called for...
by Susan | Dec 31, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history, Uncategorized
December 31, 1970 The U.S. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which in 1964 authorized an increase in U.S. military involvement in Vietnam as a response to a later to be revealed as fictitious attack on U.S. naval forces patrolling close to the North...
