by Susan | Nov 18, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 18, 1993 South Africa’s ruling National Party, and leaders of 20 other parties representing both blacks and whites, approved a new national constitution that provided fundamental rights to blacks and other non-whites, ending the apartheid system. Long...
by Susan | Nov 17, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 17, 1980 More than 2,000 women, including writers Grace Paley & Maya Angelou, surrounded the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. to weave, dance, chant, demonstrate and perform civil disobedience to communicate to national leaders and military commanders that...
by Susan | Nov 14, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 14, 1940 German bombers devastate the English city of Coventry, demolishing tens of thousands of buildings and killing hundreds of men, women, and children. The verb “Koventrieren” passed into the German language, meaning “to annihilate or...
by Susan | Nov 13, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 13, 1933 The first recorded “sit-down” strike in the U.S. was staged by workers at the Hormel Packing Company in Austin, Minnesota. Although the company tried to bring in scab (strike-breaking) workers, within four days Hormel agreed to submit...
by Susan | Nov 12, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 12, 1864 Union General William T. Sherman orders the business district of Atlanta, Georgia, destroyed before he embarks on his famous March to the Sea, to prevent the Confederates from recovering anything once the Yankees had abandoned it. November 12, 1948...
by Susan | Nov 11, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 11, 1918 At 11 o’clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War comes to an end. “The War to End All Wars” took the life of some 9 million soldiers; 21 million more were wounded. Civilian casualties...
