by Susan | Nov 10, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 10, 1928 The first installment of All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of World War I, appears in the German magazine Vossische Zeitung, marking him as an eloquent spokesperson for a generation that had been, in his own...
by Susan | Nov 9, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 9-10, 1938 In a night that came to be known as Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass, Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and homes, and beat and murdered Jewish men, women, and children across Germany and Austria. November 9, 1989...
by Susan | Nov 8, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 8, 1966 Texas finally votes to abolish the $2 poll tax for state and local elections. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax as a pre-condition for voting in federal elections, but made no mention of state elections. In the...
by Susan | Nov 7, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 7, 1916 Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Missoula, Montana, became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. Just after her term began, on April 6, 1917, the House held a vote on whether to enter World War I. Rankin cast one of fifty votes against the...
by Susan | Nov 6, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 6, 1913 Mohandas K. Gandhi led 2,500 ethnic Indian miners, women and others from South Africa’s Natal province across its border with Transvaal in the Great March, a violation of the pass laws restricting the movement of all non-whites in the country. Gandhi...
by Susan | Nov 5, 2014 | this day in peace and justice history
November 5, 1982 Thirty six were arrested for blocking the corporate entrance at Honeywell, Minnesota’s largest defense contractor. The “Honeywell Project,” a local campaign against the arms maker, dogged the company for over three decades. It...
