by Susan | Jun 24, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 24, 1647 Margaret Brent, a niece of Lord Baltimore, was ejected from the Maryland Assembly after demanding a place and vote in the...
by Susan | Jun 23, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 23, 1683 Chief Tamanend (The Affable), leader of the Pennsylvania’s thirteen Lenni-Lenape tribes, and other chiefs went to Philadelphia to meet with William Penn. Penn wished to buy four parcels of land (most of current Montgomery County), and the chiefs agreed...
by Susan | Jun 22, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 22, 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the historic federal Bail Reform Act, which created a presumption of release before trial for federal criminal suspects. The law largely replaced the old money bail system, which meant that poor defendants had to...
by Susan | Jun 21, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 21, 1915 In Guinn v. United States the Supreme Court held that “grandfather” clauses were unconstitutional. Grandfather clauses were 19th century laws that exempted people from voter literacy tests if a grandfather had been a registered voter, had voted in some...
by Susan | Jun 20, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 20, 1979 President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter climbed onto the White House roof to celebrate the installation of solar-energy panels there: 32 photovoltaic panels that generated enough energy to provide hot water for the entire White House....
by Susan | Jun 19, 2017 | this day in peace and justice history
June 19, 1865 On this day in 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation (originally issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863) in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. The event, now celebrated as...
